Cost Allocation
Cost allocation in OneLens helps you bring structure, accountability, and meaning to your cloud spend. Instead of navigating raw billing data, you can allocate every cost to the business unit, project, or environment it truly belongs to.
With multiple allocation strategies and flexible mapping capabilities, you decide how your costs are split, grouped, and reported—whether by accounts, tags, custom rules, or usage patterns.
Why Cost Allocation Matters for You
When your cloud costs are correctly allocated:
You know which teams, products, or applications are driving the most spend.
You can hold stakeholders accountable for their usage.
You can improve forecasting, chargebacks, and budget alignment.
You get better visibility to support optimization and savings.
What You Can Do in OneLens
OneLens gives you several tools to define how your cloud spend is organized:
Create cost centers that mirror your real-world organization using account-based, tag-based, or resource group-based mapping. Track spend by team, product, environment, and more.
Apply business context to your resources even when AWS tags are inconsistent or missing. Use account, tag, or resource attributes to generate meaningful virtual tags for filtering and grouping costs.
Distribute common or platform-level costs (like logging, networking, or shared services) across multiple cost centers using even, fixed, or weighted strategies.
Separate operational workloads from test environments to understand the cost of running production vs experimentation.
Allocate container-level usage back to namespaces, workloads, or teams running within Kubernetes clusters.
Cost allocation isn't just about reporting—it's about ownership. OneLens helps you build a clear, business-aware cost structure that scales with your cloud environment.
Let your spend speak in the language of your business.
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