Cloud Cost Monitoring

Stop checking three billing portals. One daily signal for AWS, GCP, and Azure.

StackSpend connects to AWS, GCP, and Azure with read-only credentials. Get a daily cost signal in Slack or email — green, amber, or red — so your team knows whether cloud spend is on track without opening a single billing portal. Anomaly detection, budget tracking, and pace-to-forecast included from day one.

Read-only access·14-day free trial·No credit card required·Setup in under 5 minutes
The challenge

Why this spend is hard to control

01

AWS, GCP, and Azure each have their own dashboards and billing cycles. Cost Explorer, BigQuery billing export, and Cost Management are powerful—but they're investigation tools, not prevention tools. You have to log in to each one to see the full picture.

02

Surprise bills happen when no one checks. Dashboards don't send alerts. By the time you notice a spike, the month is over and the overrun is real.

03

Cross-provider visibility requires manual aggregation. If you run multi-cloud, you're adding up three different invoices—or three different dashboards—to understand total spend and manage cloud spend confidently.

The product

What StackSpend shows

  • StackSpend connects to AWS (Cost Explorer API), GCP (BigQuery billing export), and Azure (Cost Management API) with read-only credentials. One dashboard shows total cloud spend and breakdown by provider, service, and project.

  • Daily signals arrive in Slack or email. Green means on track. Amber or red means attention needed. No logging in required.

  • Anomaly detection compares today's spend to your baseline. Alerts via Slack, email, or webhooks — push anomaly.created events to your own systems. Pace-to-forecast tells you where the month will end. Catch overruns before they happen.

  • For teams searching for cloud spend management rather than just raw billing exports, StackSpend adds the daily monitoring and reporting loop that native dashboards usually miss.

What we track

AWS (Cost Explorer, Organizations multi-account)GCP (BigQuery billing export)Azure (Cost Management API)90 days of historyDaily rollups and forecasts
Failure modes

Common cost triggers

Real scenarios that cause spend to spike — often silently.

An EC2 instance type is deployed in a dev environment without a lifecycle policy and runs for weeks

GCP data transfer costs spike after a new service-to-service integration is added

Azure reserved instances expire and pay-as-you-go rates apply silently from day one

An S3 bucket accumulates storage well beyond planned capacity with no one checking

Native tools vs StackSpend

AWS Cost Explorer, GCP Cloud Billing, Azure Cost Management

Native tools are built for investigation. StackSpend is built for prevention.

AWS Cost Explorer, GCP Cloud Billing, Azure Cost Management

  • Three separate portals — you have to log into each one to see the full picture
  • No push alerts — dashboards are investigation tools, not prevention tools
  • Cross-provider total requires manual aggregation or spreadsheet work
  • By the time you notice a spike, the month is often already over

StackSpend

  • One dashboard for AWS, GCP, and Azure in a single view
  • Daily Slack or email signal — green/amber/red, no logging in required
  • Cross-provider anomaly detection catches spikes the day they happen
  • Pace-to-forecast tells you where the month will end before it does
ICP

Who this is for

Engineering leaders running multi-cloud workloads who need one cost view instead of three billing portals.

Platform and DevOps teams that want daily alerts when cloud spend spikes — without manually checking dashboards.

Finance and CTOs who need accurate cloud cost forecasting before month-end to avoid budget surprises.

From day one

What you get when you connect

Setup time

Most teams can connect and validate setup in about 5-10 minutes.

Access model

Read-only credentials only. StackSpend does not modify provider resources or billing settings.

Signals

Daily Slack or email updates, anomaly alerts, and budget tracking in one workflow.

History and forecast

Historical spend context plus pace-to-forecast so overruns are visible before month-end.

Questions

Frequently asked

Does StackSpend support multi-cloud cost monitoring?
Yes. StackSpend connects to AWS via Cost Explorer, GCP via BigQuery billing export, and Azure via the Cost Management API. All three appear in one dashboard with a combined total.
How is this different from AWS Cost Explorer or native cloud billing dashboards?
Native cloud billing dashboards are investigation tools — you have to log in to look. StackSpend is a monitoring layer that delivers a daily signal to Slack or email, fires anomaly alerts the day a spike starts, and gives you pace-to-forecast so overruns are visible before the month closes.
How long does cloud cost monitoring setup take?
Most teams can connect a cloud provider in under 10 minutes with read-only credentials. StackSpend never modifies your infrastructure or billing settings. 90 days of history is backfilled automatically on connect.
Can I get alerts when cloud spend spikes?
Yes. StackSpend uses anomaly detection to compare daily spend to your historical baseline. Alerts are delivered via Slack, email, or webhook so you can respond the same day instead of discovering the spike at invoice time.

Start seeing your full stack spend.

Connect cloud cost monitoring in under 5 minutes. 90 days of history loaded automatically. Daily signals from day one.

14-day free trial · No credit card required · Read-only access