Cost
Know what it costs before it exists.
At a glance
What Cost gives you.
An estimate on every plan
Monthly cost for what the plan creates, changes and removes, grouped the same way the diff is grouped.
A range, not false precision
Usage-based services are shown as a range with the assumption stated, because a single number would be a guess presented as a fact.
Budgets per environment
Set a monthly budget on an environment and get a warning as spend approaches it, with the resources driving it named.
Two bills, kept apart
What your cloud charges you and what SysJ charges you are shown separately and never merged into one number.
In detail
How it works.
Before you approve
The cost is on the same screen as the change.
The approval screen shows the monthly estimate for the plan, split by networking, compute, data and access. A change that adds cost says how much, before anyone confirms it.
- Estimated from your provider’s published prices
- Assumptions shown next to any usage-based line
- The difference from current spend, not only the total
After it runs
Budgets that name what is spending.
Each environment tracks its spend against a budget you set. When it approaches the limit, SysJ tells you which resources are responsible and whether any of them look forgotten.
- Warnings at thresholds you choose
- Preview environments counted like everything else
- Idle and orphaned resources surfaced for removal
Questions
Common questions about Cost.
- Where do the estimates come from?
- From the provider’s published price lists, applied to the resources in the plan. Anything billed by usage is shown as a range with the assumption beside it.
- Will SysJ stop infrastructure when a budget is reached?
- No. A budget warns; it never deletes or stops anything on its own. Removing resources is always a plan a person approves.
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