1. Cloud Cost Management
  2. Roles and access
Reference

Who can do what in Cloud Cost Management

Assign cost review, service decisions and change approval to named people.

How permissions work

Separate review from execution

A Change Approver records the decision; Cloud Operations Engineer records the deployment outcome.

Keep ownership visible

Assign service, account and incident owners before relying on their reports.

Limit data changes

Give cost line and allocation editing to people who reconcile those records.

Who can do what

Permissions by role
RoleSpend evidenceAccounts and allocationCost incidentsOptimizationChanges and deploymentsData operations
Cloud Cost AnalystEditViewEditViewView—
Cost Center OwnerEditEdit————
Service OwnerViewEditViewEditEdit—
Change Approver———ViewApprove—
Cloud Operations Engineer—View——EditEdit
Finance ManagerViewEdit—EditView—
AdminViewEditView—View—

Each role in detail

Cloud Cost Analyst

Investigates spend evidence, anomalies and cost incidents.

Can

  • Manage cloud cost lines, cost anomaly events, cost event log, incident updates, Incidents
  • View cloud accounts, Services, spend alerts, optimization recommendations

Starts on: Open Incidents

Cost Center Owner

Reviews allocated spend and the accounts charged to a cost center.

Can

  • Manage account cost centers, cost center allocations
  • View cloud accounts, cloud cost lines, managed resources

Starts on: Allocated Resources

Service Owner

Owns service context, requests and optimization recommendations.

Can

  • Manage Services, service requests, account onboarding requests, optimization recommendations, cost runbooks
  • View Incidents, Changes, optimization deployments

Starts on: Active Service Requests

Change Approver

Reviews planned cost changes and records decisions.

Can

  • Manage change approval reviews
  • View Changes, optimization recommendations, savings reversal checks

Reviews and approves

  • Approve Changes

Starts on: Change Schedule

Cloud Operations Engineer

Tracks billing data movement, resource changes and deployment outcomes.

Can

  • Manage cost ingestion runs, data freshness checks, integration receipts, optimization deployments, data export runs
  • View Services, Changes, Assets

Starts on: Change Schedule

Finance Manager

Reviews allocation, commitments, subscriptions and realized savings.

Can

  • Manage cloud accounts, account onboarding requests, commitment entitlements, saa S subscriptions
  • View cloud cost lines, account cost centers, optimization verifications, savings reversal checks

Starts on: Recommendation Board

Admin

Maintains access and the shared operating setup.

Can

  • Manage Users, People, cost model templates, billing API endpoints
  • View cloud accounts, Services, Changes, Incidents

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