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Status Future consideration
Workspace Cloudability
Categories Anomaly Detection
Created by Guest
Created on May 5, 2025

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Improved Cost Anomaly Detection

Our team uses AWS’ anomaly detection service within their Cost Management portal. It would be excellent if we could get this same functionality from Cloudability and if the anomaly team might be able to improve their anomaly detection to be more like AWS. 

We specifically like the the ability to change thresholds based on $ and % increases, customizing who the alerts go to, and overall it seems to catch real anomalies taking a good account of historical trends to ensure no false flags are raised.
 

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Aug 19, 2026

    I agree with this suggestion.  

    Being able to set cost anomaly alerts based on both $ thresholds AND % thresholds will prevent many false positives.  (Many smaller accounts will trigger a % change increase but be minuscule in actual $ change.  Many larger accounts will trigger a $ change but might actually be a small - and expected - change % wise.)

    It is common to use both measures in conjunction to determine whether a cost change requires a response.

    Currently, the Cloudability cost anatomy toll allows the user to set an alert threshold on $ change OR % change and not both.

    The cost anomaly function in AWS gives the user the ability to set both $ thresholds and % thresholds.  But it also gives the user the ability to determine if the anomaly alert will be triggered when either threshold is crossed (OR) or both thresholds are triggered (AND).  See the attached screenshot showing this option in AWS.

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