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Workspace Cloudability
Categories Cost Allocation and Sharing
Created by Guest
Created on May 21, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

Allow Custom/Manual Cost Centres in Cost Sharing Without Requiring Cloud Spend

Currently in Cloudability, Cost Sharing can only allocate costs to values that already exist within the Business Mapping dataset. This creates a limitation for customers who need to allocate shared costs, Marketplace purchases, or platform charges to cost centres that are not direct cloud consumption cost centres.

Example use case:
A customer is allocating Snowflake Marketplace purchases across multiple business cost centres. Some of these cost centres are finance/business owned and do not consume cloud resources directly. Since there is no actual cloud spend mapped to these cost centres, they never appear within the Business Mapping dataset and therefore cannot be selected within Cost Sharing.

Current workaround:
The customer is creating a very small artificial cloud charge/allocation against those cost centres purely to make them appear in the mapping dataset so Cost Sharing can reference them. While functional, this adds operational overhead, unnecessary complexity, and governance concerns.

Requested enhancement:

Allow administrators to:

  • Manually add/custom define allocation targets within Cost Sharing
  • Support reference/custom dimensions independent of cloud spend
  • Allow non consuming cost centres to exist within Business Mapping
Idea priority Medium

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