“Your team runs on AWS and Azure. Every Monday morning the same scramble: finance asks "why did spend go up?", security asks "are we exposed?", the CTO asks "what should we shut down?". Answering needs four logins (AWS Cost Explorer, Security Hub, Azure Cost Management, Defender for Cloud), a fluent reading of three different cost report schemas, and a spreadsheet to reconcile them. The CSV gets stale before the meeting starts. Cloud2BI is one chat box that already speaks both clouds and answers the cost question AND the security question in the same breath — because they're the same conversation: an unused VM is both wasted money and an exposed surface.”
Cloud2BI
Cloud FinOpsAWS + Azure cost AND security — answered in plain English.
Cloud2BI is a multi-cloud FinOps + SecOps platform for AWS and Azure (GCP next). Cost data reads directly from AWS CUR (S3 parquet via DuckDB) and Azure Cost Management Exports (Blob Storage via DuckDB) — same engine, same SQL grammar, same dashboards, currency converted to your billing currency (₹/€/$/etc.). Security posture pulls live from AWS Security Hub + CloudTrail and Azure Defender for Cloud + Entra ID + PIM + audit logs. The Copilot grounds every answer in your real data — never invented numbers — and ships printable PDF reports (Executive Brief, Cost Brief, Security Brief, Full Audit) for board meetings and quarterly reviews. One workspace, one bill from us, one answer.
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 blending Defender Secure Score + Security Hub findings + Entra hygiene + IAM analyzer — single org-wide health score with drill-down to the underlying findings
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 section in Cloud2BI shows per-standard pass/fail counts with one click to download 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
Cost + security data starts flowing within minutes; first PDF report ready before your next standup
What it replaces
Every feature exists because something was broken before.
AWS CUR + Azure Cost Mgmt Export — same engine
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 — sub-second queries, deterministic data, no rate limits
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
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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 with their CIS Level 1 compliance status. AWS Config compliance for the same scope. Generate a Full Audit PDF”
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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