Saved views

AvailableReviewed 24 August 2026

CloudHealth Perspectives are lenses (Environment, Team, Cost Center) with groups (production, checkout, finance). They drive reports, policies, recommendations and chargeback.

FinomateAI splits that into:

1. Saved views (this page) — reopen the same Cost Explorer scope.
2. Cost categories — allocate provider cost to products, teams and shared platforms.

Use both with Cost Explorer. A view without a category is a bookmark. A category without a view is a chargeback table nobody opens.

Sample organisation using illustrative billing data.

Why you would create views

The same CloudHealth reasons apply:

Stakeholder	Lens they need
Finance	Cost centre or product line
FinOps	Environment (prod vs non-prod)
Engineering	Application or team
Leadership	Organisation-wide All-clouds view

Without a named view, every weekly review rebuilds filters. With a view, the meeting opens on the agreed slice.

Types of view

View	Typical filters	Owner
Weekly FinOps	All clouds, last 30 days, group by service	FinOps
Production only	Environment or account list that is prod	Platform
Checkout platform	Product tag or linked accounts	Product engineering
Data products	Dedicated account / subscription	Data platform

CloudHealth distinguishes dynamic groups (tag values create groups automatically) from static groups (you add groups by hand). The intended FinomateAI category rules follow the same split — see Cost categories.

Workflow

1. Open Cost Explorer and set provider, range and group-by.
2. Select Save view.
3. Name it for the meeting or team.
4. Assign an owner who will maintain it.
5. Share it with FinOps and the owning engineering group.
6. Open the view next week instead of rebuilding filters.

A view without an owner dies the first time filters drift.

Fields

Field	Purpose
Name	What the review is called
Owner	Who maintains it
Scope	Provider, range, group-by, tags
Share with	Teams who will open it, not “everyone”

Best practices (same as CloudHealth Perspectives)

• Start with a small set of lenses: Environment, Product, Owner, Cost centre.
• Tags are case-sensitive. Prod, prod and Production are three groups unless you merge them.
• Do not put an asset in two groups inside the same lens. An asset can belong to Environment=production and Product=checkout.
• Review unallocated until finance accepts the remainder. Hiding it is how chargeback goes wrong.

See Compared with CloudHealth for the full mapping.