Building multi-cloud cost transparency with a cloud-agnostic FinOps dashboard

Simran Vats -- Cloud Center of Excellence

Imagine managing your bank account where every bank is sending statements in a different language and format. In the cloud-world, AWS, Azure, and the rest all have their own billing models, discount rules, and reporting formats. And while engineering teams are busy shipping features, finance is left staring at spreadsheets trying to decode the latest jump in costs.

Your cost review meetings are spent figuring out what happened last month. Someone asked, “Why did storage costs double?” and nobody had a clear answer. Does it sound familiar? 

Managing cloud spend across multiple providers is harder than it should be. Imagine trying to balance your personal budget if every vendor sent you invoices in different currencies and formats. And the stakes are high. According to Gartner, global cloud spending hit $678.8 billion in 2024. Yet Flexera’s 2024 report says only 30% of companies truly understand where their cloud budget goes.

Introducing a FinOps platform that works 

The TP cloud-agnostic FinOps dashboard brings AWS and Azure costs into one clean, understandable view. Powered by FOCUS, it is a standard for cloud billing data to keep everything consistent across providers.

The quick navigation on left makes it easy to drill down into details. The center visualizations show cost breakdowns, while the tables highlight top subscriptions and projects with their monthly spend. Regional cost distribution on the right is clearly displayed, helping teams identify where cloud spend is concentrated globally.

Think of it as a translator and a time-saver. Here’s what it does:

1. Smart data collection: It automatically pulls in billing and usage data from AWS and Azure across accounts, subscriptions, and tenants. No more hunting through CSVs.

2. FOCUS standardization: FOCUS gave us a common format to unify everything. Whether it’s a usage type from AWS or a meter category from Azure, you will find it in the same structure.

3. One view for all your spending: Instead of switching between platforms, you can now see all costs in one place, broken down by account, project, region, service, or however you want.

4. Savings made obvious: Reserved Instances, Enterprise Agreements, Savings Plans, we made them all visible. No more guessing if your long-term commitments are paying off.

5. Real-time, fast insights: Need to compare last quarter’s usage to this month? Done. Want anomaly alerts? Already there. Our platform answers cost questions in seconds, not hours.

6. Tool that fits: Be it Power BI, Azure Data Factory, or Microsoft Fabric, the platform seamlessly integrates with tools you are using already. So, your teams don’t have to learn new tools.

7. Flexible and scalable: You can tag resources by cost center, pull in third-party data, or even track non-cloud billing. It grows with your business.

Integrating FinOps into DevOps

We used Azure DevOps to build and deploy the whole thing, which let us move fast. CI/CD pipelines made it easy to test, roll out changes, and keep everything stable even while we were scaling. More importantly, this setup added cost awareness directly into the dev process. Now, engineers can see the financial impact of their decisions during sprint planning and not by month-end.


What changed

- Three-hour finance meetings? Down to minutes
- Engineering teams? Now know the cost of what they build, in real time
- Finance? Get clear, up-to-date reports that require no reconciliation.

Using the same data brings everyone on the same page. Your team can stop reacting to the cloud costs and start managing them proactively.


If you have more than one cloud provider, you have probably run into these challenges. Disconnected data. Confusing reports. Missed optimization opportunities. Now you can change all these issues with a FOCUS-compliant, DevOps-driven FinOps platform. It doesn’t matter if your stack is 90% AWS, mostly Azure, or a Frankenstein mix of both. 

This FinOps Dashboard gives you clarity. Automation gives you speed. Standardization gives you control.

You don’t need a full engineering sprint to begin. Start simple:

Figure out the gaps—Is your team spending too much time wrangling bills?
Adopt FOCUS—It’s free, open, and widely supported.
Bring in DevOps—Automation of workflows to shorten iteration cycles.
Visualize it—Use tools like Power BI to make the data usable.


Cloud costs don’t have to be a mystery. When everyone sees the same picture, decision-making gets a whole lot easier and smarter.


At TP, we deliver a FOCUS-compliant, DevOps-driven FinOps platform that brings clarity, speed, and control to multi-cloud cost management.

Want to stop guessing and start managing cloud spend with confidence? Visit our technology services page to learn more.
Source:

Gartner. (2023). Worldwide public cloud end-user spending to reach $678.8 billion in 2024 
Flexera. (2024). State of the cloud report