Proposal to Adjust Monthly Recurring Charges Alerts: Shift from Cost Anomalies to Monthly Cost Awareness
Customers often receive monthly subscriptions or charges for cloud services on the 1st of each month, such as Cognito, IAM Analyzer, or backups. These charges frequently trigger cost anomaly alerts, causing unnecessary panic and notifications in Slack channels or emails. Instead of treating these as cost anomalies, it would be more appropriate to classify them as 'Monthly Cost Awareness' or 'Monthly Charges by SKU,' as they are expected expenses rather than anomalies.
Satyam Gupta
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We have already build a way to identify such monthly cost spikes and suppress them. We already support a range of services there already and any other new service can be requested to this list via our support ticket. Here is the information about existing capability https://help.doit.com/docs/governance/cloud-anomalies#spikes-at-the-beginning-of-the-month