Alibaba Cloud

amberflo supports direct integration with alibaba cloud using the focus (finops open cost and usage specification) standard this standard from the finops foundation makes it easy integrate your account with amberflo with minimal setup about focus focus is an open standard developed by the finops foundation to standardize and unify cost and usage reporting across cloud providers amberflo is a member of the finops foundation and offers full support for focus setup overview integrating with alibaba cloud is quick and straightforward the setup involves four main steps enable a recurring focus export in your alibaba cloud account send the export to cloud storage, such as an object store grant amberflo read only access to the storage location containing the exported files amberflo begins ingestion, automatically normalizing and processing the data for use in dashboards, chargebacks, showbacks, and cost optimization workflows once set up, amberflo will regularly check for new exports and pull them in automatically, ensuring your data stays up to date what’s next after connecting alibaba cloud to amberflo your usage and cost data will appear in the public cloud dashboard you can allocate shared costs and apply chargeback rates you can surface cost anomalies, track trends, and explore recommendations if you need help enabling the export or configuring permissions, contact amberflo support for assistance