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Status Future consideration
Workspace Cloudability
Categories Anomaly Detection
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 9, 2025

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Anomaly Detection - Cost Metric Configuration

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Current State:
Cloudability’s anomaly detection feature currently uses Cost (Total) as the only basis for identifying anomalies in cloud spend.

Problem:
Cost (Total) does not reflect the actual financial impact to the business because it excludes the effects of:

Enterprise discounts

Reserved Instances (RIs)

Savings Plans (SPs)

Committed Use Discounts (CUDs)

This leads to noisy or misleading alerts that don’t reflect true overspend or unexpected usage.

Proposal:
Switch the anomaly detection cost metric to Cost (Adjusted Amortized). This metric includes amortized RIs/SPs and enterprise discounts, giving a truer picture of the anomaly's impact.

Benefits:

More accurate anomaly alerts based on real financial exposure

Fewer false positives from planned pre-paid usage patterns

Idea priority High

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