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Connect your first cloud

AvailableReviewed 21 August 2026

Connect one billing provider so spend appears in FinomateAI. You can add the other clouds later. Each connector is read-only.

Before you begin

  • You have a FinomateAI tenant and a tenant_admin sign-in.
  • Someone in your cloud team can create a billing export and a read-only identity.
  • You have agreed the billing scope (which accounts, subscriptions or projects belong in the first connection).
Connected accounts list showing healthy AWS and Azure connectors and a Google Cloud import in progress
Sample organisation. Status and last import time are tenant-specific.

Step 1: Choose a provider

Pick the cloud that owns the largest share of spend, or the one whose bill you need to explain first.

ProviderWhat FinomateAI readsGuide
AWSCost and Usage Report (or FOCUS) in S3, through a cross-account roleConnect AWS
AzureBilling export in a storage account, through a service principalConnect Azure
Google CloudBigQuery billing export, through a service accountConnect Google Cloud

Step 2: Complete onboarding

  1. Open the invite or Complete onboarding flow for your tenant.
  2. Select the provider.
  3. Enter the identifiers from the provider-specific guide (role ARN, storage account, dataset, and so on).
  4. Submit and wait until the connection status is Healthy.
Connect AWS onboarding form with external ID, payer account, role ARN and CUR bucket
AWS example. Azure and Google Cloud use the same flow with different fields.

Step 3: Wait for the first import

Allow up to 24 hours after a healthy connection before treating totals as complete. A brand-new export must deliver its first files before FinomateAI can validate cost data.

Recently closed billing periods can still change as the provider posts credits, refunds and adjustments. See Data freshness and reconciliation.

Step 4: Confirm spend is visible

  1. Open the Dashboard.
  2. Select the provider you just connected.
  3. Confirm that monthly spend is non-zero and that expected accounts appear in Cost Explorer.
  4. Compare a completed period with the provider bill for the same accounts and dates.

Expected result

The connector is healthy, a completed period is explainable against the provider bill, and you can open Cost Explorer on that provider.

Next steps