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How do I get to Budgeting & Forecasting?

Click on "Cost" and then select "Select "Budget & Forecast" on the left side of the page. Or navigate to a specific hierarchy like Company/IT then click on Image Removed in the upper right corner and select "Edit Context"Image Removedand pick "Budget & Forecast" 

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What are the primary reasons to use Budget & Forecast?

The main benefits of using Yotascale to track your budgets are:

• Track your budgets inline with other analytics for your AWS cloud spend (costs, anomalies, recommendations, etc.)
• Track your budgets vs your actual historical AWS cloud spend
• Weekly notifications of how you are doing with respect to your budget given the context of your business

The main benefits of using Yotascale to forecast your AWS cloud spend are:

• Help plan your budgets given your historical costs
• Answer questions about “How are we looking for next month/quarter, this year, etc?”
• Predict when intervention is needed to ensure your budgets are not exceeded