“Every Monday, the same three questions: finance asks why spend went up, security asks whether we are exposed, the CTO asks where we can save. The answers live in different consoles, so someone technical joins them up by hand before every leadership review. Cloud2BI answers both in one place — because they are the same conversation: an idle instance is wasted money and an exposed surface at once.”
Cloud2BI
Cloud FinOpsAWS + Azure cost AND security — answered in plain English.
One console for what your cloud costs and how exposed it is. See spend across every connected account, then click any figure down to the individual resources behind it — by service, region, account, tag, instance type, storage class or purchase option. Find what nobody is using, see what drove a cost increase between any two periods, and price a change before you make it. Open security findings, IAM hygiene and network exposure sit beside the bill instead of in another tool. Ask any of it in plain English, and export the answer as a report a board can read. Read-only throughout: nothing in your account changes. AWS and Azure today, GCP in preview.
Your cloud bill and your cloud risk are two separate conversations.
They should not be. Here is what that actually costs you.
1.You find out about overspend after the invoice lands
Native billing consoles are backward-looking. A runaway environment, a forgotten cluster or a misconfigured data transfer runs for twenty days before anyone notices — and by then the money is already spent.
2.Cost tools and security tools live in different silos
The CFO asks what we are spending. The CISO asks what we are exposed to. Nobody can answer both in the same view, so cost decisions get made without security context and security fixes get approved without knowing what they cost.
3.Multi-cloud means multiple vocabularies
AWS calls it Unblended Cost. Azure calls it something else. Three consoles, three tag schemas, three permission models, three definitions of account. Consolidation becomes a manual translation job.
4.Untagged spend makes showback impossible
When a meaningful share of resources carries no owner, team or environment tag, you cannot attribute cost to a business unit — so cost accountability stays theoretical and nobody owns the reduction target.
5.Waste is invisible because it is boring
Idle instances, oversized databases, unattached volumes, orphaned snapshots, expired commitments, forgotten free-tier overruns. Individually small. Collectively the single largest recoverable line item in most cloud bills.
6.Security findings are scattered across a dozen services
Security Hub, GuardDuty, Config, IAM credential reports, network configs — each with its own console and its own severity language. There is no single number a board will understand, and no clean path from a critical finding to the person who fixes it.
Every one of these is a visibility problem before it is a spend problem or a security problem. Cloud2BI solves visibility first.
How Cloud2BI compares
Nothing is marked absent that a competitor genuinely does. Test any row.
| Native consoles | Point FinOps tools | Point CSPM tools | Cloud2BI | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost analytics | Basic, per-cloud | Deep | No | Deep |
| Security posture | Split across services | No | Deep | Deep |
| Cost + security in one view | No | No | No | Yes |
| AWS + Azure | Separate consoles | Varies | Varies | Yes |
| Resource-level drill-down | Limited | Varies | No | Yes |
| Read-only, no agents | Yes | Varies | Varies | Yes |
| Number of tools to buy | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Questions buyers actually ask
What permissions does Cloud2BI need?
Read-only access to your cloud accounts. It never requires write or modify permissions and makes no changes to your infrastructure.
Do I need to install agents?
No. Cloud2BI is agentless and connects through the cloud provider APIs and billing exports you already have.
Does it work with AWS Organizations and multi-account setups?
Yes. Every view supports org-wide aggregation as well as filtering to individual accounts, regions, environments and tags.
How long does onboarding take?
Connecting takes minutes. Security data appears straight away. Cost data appears once AWS or Azure delivers your first billing export — usually within 24 hours — and refreshes daily after that.
What is the difference between Unblended, Amortized, Net Unblended and Blended cost?
Each accounts for discounts and commitments differently. Cloud2BI lets you switch between all four on the same report, so finance and engineering can each see the view that is correct for their purpose.
Can I use Cloud2BI for only one cloud?
Yes. Start with one provider and add the others whenever you are ready.
Is there an API?
No. Cloud2BI is used through the console, and every view exports to CSV or PDF.
What makes it different
Cost and security in one product, not one bundle
The Executive Overview puts spend month-to-date, end-of-month forecast, security posture score and open critical findings in a single row of KPI cards. One screen, one story, one meeting instead of three.
Granular down to the resource
Group spend by service, region, account, tag, instance type, operating system, storage class, purchase option or reservation — then click any row to see the individual resources behind it, with their region, tags and cost. Ten ready-made reports and a builder for your own.
Read-only by architecture
Cloud2BI never needs write permissions. It observes, analyses and recommends; your engineers make every change. This is what gets a tool through a security review in days instead of quarters.
Your billing data is read where it lives
The billing export is queried in place, in your own storage, through a role you control. We do not copy your billing rows into our platform.
Who uses Cloud2BI?
Real people with real problems this product solves.
AWS Cost Explorer and Azure Cost Management have different schemas; reconciling monthly spend across both takes a day of pivot tables
Ask "spend by service across both clouds" — one consolidated answer in your billing currency, no schema translation
Secure Score (Azure) and Security Hub findings (AWS) live in separate consoles with separate severity scales; "are we secure?" has no single number
One Risk Overview putting Defender Secure Score, Security Hub findings, Entra hygiene and IAM analyzer side by side, each scored out of 100, with drill-down to the findings behind them
Can't tell which team, service, or untagged resource group is driving the cost increase across two clouds, and which findings actually matter
Tag-based + RG-based + sub-based cost allocation with severity-ranked findings; one click drills from a cost row to the resources making up the spend
Monthly variance analysis requires pulling 15+ reports manually; Azure invoices arrive late and in USD when the business pays in INR/EUR
Ask "why did costs go up?" and get the top 5 drivers ranked by impact. Advisor savings shown in your billing currency, using the FX rate from your actual export — matches what hit your bank to the rupee
Right-sizing means stitching CloudWatch metrics + Azure Monitor + Advisor recommendations + Optimization Hub by hand
AI Savings Advisor (AWS) + Azure Advisor recommendations deduplicated and aggregated — "Consider VM RI" for 3 identical SKUs becomes ONE row with combined savings, not three confusing copies
CIS, NIST, ISO27001, PCI-DSS pass/fail evidence is scattered across consoles; quarterly audit prep takes weeks
Compliance shows how many controls each standard has enabled, and every failing finding raised against them, with one click to a Full Audit PDF that has every section auditors need
How to connect
Connection method: AWS: IAM role (CloudFormation template) · Azure: multi-tenant Entra app (one-click consent)
AWS: deploy the read-only IAM role via our CloudFormation template (Cost Explorer + Security Hub + CloudTrail + IAM Access Analyzer)
Azure: click "Sign in with Microsoft" — admin consent grants the Cloud2BI Entra app Cost Management Reader + Reader + Security Reader (Billing Reader and Reservations Reader optional)
(Optional but recommended) Deploy our Cost Management Export ARM template — 90 seconds, one-click — to land your daily Azure billing CSV in your own blob storage. Cloud2BI reads from there with Storage Blob Data Reader, giving you the same fast / deterministic / multi-currency experience AWS CUR provides
Security data appears within minutes. Cost data appears once AWS or Azure delivers your first billing export — usually within 24 hours — and refreshes daily after that
What it replaces
Every feature exists because something was broken before.
Granular reporting on one console
Native consoles show you a service total and stop. Finding the resources behind it means a second tool, a CSV export, or a query someone has to write
Group spend by service, region, account, tag, instance type, operating system, storage class, purchase option or reservation — then click any row to see the individual resource IDs behind it, with their region, tags and what each one cost. Ten ready-made reports plus a builder for your own.
Waste Lens — what nobody is using
Idle instances, unattached volumes, orphaned snapshots and expired commitments are individually small and collectively the largest recoverable line in most bills — and no console lists them together
One page listing every idle, unused and orphaned resource across your accounts, with what each one is costing you a month.
What Changed — why the bill moved
"Why did the bill jump?" is the most common question in cloud finance and the slowest to answer: diffing two months of line items by hand takes most of a day
Pick two periods. It ranks exactly what drove the difference — by service, by account, down to the resource — in about thirty seconds.
Savings Advisor, Commitments and Resize Simulator
Rightsizing means stitching together utilisation metrics, vendor recommendations and commitment coverage by hand, then arguing about whether the saving is real
Prioritised, quantified savings actions; Reserved Instance and Savings Plan coverage, utilisation and purchase guidance; Compare Plans side by side; and a Resize Simulator that prices a change before you touch anything. Every recommendation lands in one queue.
Reads your billing export directly, in your own bucket
AWS bills via Cost Explorer API are slow and rate-limited; Azure Cost Management Query API returns empty rows during billing re-aggregation windows
Both clouds export their cost data to your own object storage (S3 CUR / Azure Blob CSV). DuckDB reads them directly — deterministic data, no rate limits, and results cached until AWS rewrites the export — so repeat views are instant
Plain-English Copilot — grounded in your data
"AI tools" hallucinate numbers and invent instance IDs
Every answer comes from a real tool call against your real data. Tools are cloud-scoped: on the Azure tab the model can only call Azure tools; on AWS only AWS tools. You can see the tool that fired and the raw response — zero made-up numbers
Multi-currency billing — INR / EUR / USD / etc.
Azure Advisor returns savings in USD even when your bill is in INR — "$3,500/yr savings" next to a ₹776/mo spend reads like a data bug
We pull the actual USD↔billing-currency FX rate from your cost export, then convert Advisor savings + report totals to your billing currency. Tooltip explains the projection vs actual usage caveat
Sidebar drill-downs that actually drill
Clicking "Virtual Machines" on a summary card jumps to a list of all categories — losing the context you clicked from
Every row on Executive Overview deep-links with the value as a query param. Click "Virtual Machines" → land on the by-category page with VM resources auto-opened. Same on AWS and Azure
Security posture across both clouds
Azure Defender Secure Score (a %) and AWS Security Hub finding counts use different scales — no single answer to "are we secure?"
Per-subscription / per-account Risk Overview with bands (Strong / Moderate / Weak), drillable into Defender for Cloud findings, CIS/NIST/ISO/PCI compliance pass-rates, network exposure, and IAM/Entra hygiene
Entra ID + IAM hygiene
Who has Global Admin? Which users haven't signed in for 90 days? Which IAM access keys haven't rotated? Manual to find in each console
Entra users page with last-sign-in + enabled status, PIM active vs eligible role assignments, AWS IAM hygiene with stale-key detection — one report per concern
Audit log + Recently Terminated
When prod resources disappear (a VM, an S3 bucket), proving who deleted them takes 30 min in CloudTrail or Azure Activity Log
Audit log page with date filter + pagination + search across activity / actor / target. Recently Terminated page filters to delete events; pagination ensures even busy subscriptions don't hide the deletion from view
Azure Advisor + AWS Optimization Hub — deduplicated
Azure Advisor creates ONE recommendation per affected resource — 3 identical VMs = 3 identical rows. AWS Trusted Advisor has the same pattern
Groups by (problem text + impact + category) — 3 "Consider VM RI" rows merge into ONE row with "3 resources eligible · combined ₹162K/yr savings". Click to expand the per-resource list
WAR Report — composite score across 5 pillars
Microsoft's official Well-Architected Review is a guided questionnaire that takes a day; nobody actually runs it
Auto-derived from your existing data: Security (Secure Score), Reliability + Performance + Cost Optimization (Advisor categories), Operational Excellence (Defender findings). Composite score with per-pillar drill-down
PDF reports — Executive / Cost / Security / Full Audit
Board reviews need a printable summary. Screenshots from 7 different dashboards is the current workflow
One click on the dashboard → PDF opens in a new tab → auto-fires Save-as-PDF. 4 presets: Executive Brief (~10 pp), Cost-Only (~17 pp), Security-Only (~9 pp), Full Audit (~26 pp). Header shows "Cloud2BI · AWS" or "Cloud2BI · Azure" cleanly
Cost forecast + anomaly detection
Azure Cost Mgmt forecast needs 14+ days of history; AWS Anomaly Detection takes 30 days. Fresh subs see ₹0 with no explanation
Forecast page shows the projection with a note when history is insufficient. Anomaly Detection feeds the executive dashboard; spike events link straight to the affected service/RG
Cross-cloud (multi-cloud tab)
AWS and Azure dashboards never agree because they use different period semantics (MTD vs last 30d), currencies, and service taxonomies
Multi-cloud tab normalizes both clouds to the same period + currency + grouping. "Top services across all clouds" answers cleanly without a CSV reconciliation
Questions you can ask right now
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Industries using Cloud2BI
Same product, different industries. Here's how teams across sectors use Cloud2BI to solve their specific data pains.
SaaS & Tech
Multi-tenant on AWS + Azure for compliance reasons (regulated customers run on Azure, others on AWS). Cost per customer needs both bills. Security findings need tenant-level attribution
They ask
“Cost per customer using customer_id tag across BOTH clouds — and any high-severity findings on their resources”
Retail & E-commerce
Traffic spikes (Black Friday, Diwali) on whichever cloud is cheaper that quarter. Bursting between clouds means costs and security findings appear in both consoles simultaneously
They ask
“Why did Compute costs spike 3x last week? Was the spike on AWS, Azure, or both — and did any Defender findings open on the new VMs?”
FinTech & Banking
PCI-scope on Azure (Microsoft's preferred compliance posture for banks), corporate on AWS (cheaper for general workloads). Compliance evidence has to come from both
They ask
“PCI-tagged resources on Azure and AWS, the controls each standard has enabled, and every finding failing against them”
Healthcare
HIPAA workloads on AWS (with BAA), clinical analytics on Azure (Synapse). Cost attribution and audit trails span both clouds with different consoles
They ask
“Last month's AWS + Azure cost for HIPAA-tagged resources, by clinical division. List anyone who accessed PHI buckets/blobs and the audit timestamp”
Media & Streaming
CDN + storage dominate the bill (~60% of cost) on both clouds; content rights audits demand evidence of access controls and DRM enforcement
They ask
“CloudFront + Azure CDN spend by content category last quarter. Any findings about origin storage public-access on either cloud?”
Gaming
User-load 10x overnight on a hit; auto-scaling fires across both clouds. Cost forecasting and right-sizing must keep up or you bleed cash in quiet hours
They ask
“Forecast month-end spend across both clouds. Idle VMs and RDS with <30% CPU. RI utilization — anywhere unused?”
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