How do I get to Budgeting & Forecasting?

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

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 spend (costs, anomalies, recommendations, etc.)
• Track your budgets vs your actual historical AWS 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 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