Questions, answered

Click Get started, then use Proto to configure Cloud Cost Management for your business. Begin with one account, one service, a recent billing period and the people who review its charges and approve changes.

Each daily cost line holds the provider, account, service name, usage date, cost center and US dollar amount. Use those fields to trace a movement to its source and owner.

Record the cost center code, allocation rule and review cycle against the account. Agree the basis with the Cost Center Owner before publishing the rule.

Review its spend alert or anomaly event, then open an incident with a priority, service and assignee. The analyst records dated updates and cost events through resolution.

The Change Approver reviews the plan, risk, schedule and rollback approach, then records a decision and reason. An approved change can move to implementation.

Yes. A recommendation records an estimate and verified saving. A verification record compares target with realized saving for a workload; a later reversal check compares baseline with actual cost.

Check ingestion run outcomes and freshness checks for the source period. Rejected receipts and failed runs deserve investigation before a lower charge total is treated as a saving.

SaaS subscription records hold monthly cost, licensed seats, renewal date and owner. Seat usage records show assignment, last activity and revocation dates.

Rehearse a charge review, a cost incident, an approved and rejected change, and a later savings comparison using a representative account and service.