Cost Guard

the challenge unexpected cost surprises enterprises often face sudden and unexplained spikes or drops in cloud spend these cost anomalies can stem from a variety of causes runaway workloads, deployment errors, incorrect configurations, or even unexpected usage patterns from internal teams without early detection, these issues can go unnoticed until the monthly bill arrives , making it difficult to respond in time inconsistent visibility across providers, regions, and business units adds complexity, making it harder to pinpoint what changed, where, and why how amberflo helps cost guard helps you stay ahead of unexpected spend by continuously monitoring your cost and usage data for anomalies it gives you full control to define what “normal” looks like based on your own organizational structure whether you want to track specific services, teams, or regions, cost guard can detect when spending deviates from your expected patterns you will be notified immediately, allowing you to take corrective action before small issues grow into major budget problems alerts can be sent by email or webhook, supporting both manual oversight and automated governance workflows feature overview and how it works with cost guard, you can define custom anomaly alerts using three main steps step 1 define the scope choose the segment of your cost or usage data you want to monitor use any combination of the following filters business unit cloud provider (aws, azure, gcp, etc) service name (e g , ec2, azure blob, bigquery) region (e g , us west 1, eastus, europe west1) service category (e g , compute, storage, networking, databases) charge description (custom label or line item name) this allows you to focus alerts on the areas of your cloud infrastructure that matter most to your business step 2 set threshold conditions decide when an anomaly alert should be triggered by choosing a threshold type percentage change (%) specify a percent increase or decrease compared to the previous time period absolute value ($) trigger alerts when costs increase or decrease by a fixed dollar amount you can compare against the previous month or year, depending on your reporting needs step 3 configure the alerting method select how you want to be notified when an anomaly is detected email notification enter one or more email addresses to receive alert messages directly webhook notification provide a webhook url to send a real time alert to another system this is ideal for triggering automated responses such as scaling down resources or blocking further usage each alert you create is listed on the main cost guard page, where you can view its name, threshold condition, status, and last modified date you can update, disable, or delete alerts at any time to align with your evolving cost governance strategy