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Understanding the Vega Platform

This page introduces the key concepts behind Vega’s unified approach to cloud cost management and optimization. Learn how Vega’s unique design simplifies cloud operations, improves cost visibility, and automates savings opportunities across multi-cloud environments.

How You Can Use Vega​

  • 💰 View & Manage Costs: See fully adjusted net-fiscal costs that include enterprise discounts, committed use discounts, amortization, and allocations.
  • 🔍 Optimize Cloud Spend: Get automated savings recommendations like rightsizing, RI purchases, and workload scheduling.
  • 📈 Allocate Costs Fairly: Use allocation rules to distribute shared costs, credits, and refunds across business units, teams, or projects.
  • 🔧 Ensure Data Quality: Use the Tag Compliance Dashboard to spot and fix untagged or malformed resources.

How Vega Thinks About Cloud Cost Management​

Built on the principles of the FinOps Framework, Vega leverages the team’s years of experience to deliver a uniquely effective approach to cloud cost management and optimization.

🔗 Unified Multi-Cloud Management​

  • Vega treats all cloud providers as one unified environment.
  • No need to switch between cloud-specific tools or views. Vega normalizes data across providers, enabling a consistent experience and single-pane-of-glass reporting.

📊 Data-Driven by Default​

  • Cloud cost management starts with data accuracy and quality.
  • Vega continuously ingests, normalizes, and validates cloud billing data to ensure reliable, actionable insights. This includes invoice reconciliation, product-specific discount validation, and variance reporting. Teams can trust that what they see in Vega reflects their true cloud costs, allowing them to make impactful decisions faster.

🤝 Accessible to Everyone​

  • Cloud cost management should be inclusive and scalable.
  • With an unlimited user licensing model, Vega enables cost visibility across your organization. Flexible reporting, role-specific dashboards, and tailored permissions ensure everyone—from practitioners to executives—gets the insights they need to drive cloud efficiency.

Key Design Principles​

📦 Data Normalization Across Clouds​

  • How It Works: Data from all connected cloud providers is transformed into a standard format, enabling seamless reporting and unified management.
  • Why This Matters: Consolidating cloud data into a single view reduces complexity and provides a consistent foundation for analysis.

🛡️ Data Quality as a Cornerstone​

  • How It Works: Vega’s ingest pipeline ensures that cloud cost data passes through rigorous validation and QC stages, highlighting errors and anomalies. Enterprise-grade tools like anomaly detection for billing errors and commitment tracking dashboards provide trustworthy, actionable insights.
  • Why This Matters: Teams can trust the numbers they see, reducing manual validation efforts. Vega FinOps experts tailor data handling to your business context, enhancing accuracy for specific needs like shared cost allocation or enterprise commitments.

🏷️ Cost Allocation Without Tag Gaps​

  • How It Works: Vega supports tag-based cost allocation but goes further with intelligent resource name matching. This ensures accurate cost allocation even when tags are incomplete or malformed.
  • Why This Matters: Missing tags no longer stall cost allocation efforts, allowing teams to maintain financial accountability and focus on optimization.

📊 Curated & Custom Dashboards for Fast Insights​

  • How It Works: Vega provides a suite of curated dashboards designed specifically to support FinOps programs, covering key use cases like cost allocation, RI coverage, anomaly detection, and budget tracking. These dashboards are available out-of-the-box, requiring no setup. For unique needs, users can also create custom dashboards tailored to their specific use cases, using Vega’s flexible reporting engine.
  • Why This Matters:
    • Time-Saving: The pre-built dashboards allow FinOps teams to start analyzing and driving insights immediately.
    • Speed to Insight: Vega’s highly performant reporting engine can process large datasets efficiently, enabling advanced calculations and delivering new insights quickly.
    • Flexibility: While the curated dashboards address common FinOps needs, the option to build custom views ensures alignment with unique organizational goals.

🔒 Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) & Row-Level Security (RLS)​

  • How It Works: Data visibility is tied to user roles and permissions, ensuring only the relevant cost data is visible. This keeps sensitive financial information secure while streamlining dashboard management.
  • Why This Matters: Minimizes dashboard sprawl while ensuring that everyone—from analysts to executives—sees exactly what they need, and nothing more.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)​

How does Vega handle multiple cloud providers?

Vega treats all clouds as a single environment, normalizing data so you don’t have to switch contexts or views.

What if my cloud tags are incomplete or incorrect?

Vega auto-allocates costs using AI-driven resource matching based on naming patterns, with reports highlighting where manual corrections are needed.

Can I create my own dashboards?

Yes! Use the Dashboard Author to build custom dashboards using data from multiple clouds, services, and KPIs.

How are enterprise costs and discounts applied?

Vega automatically includes enterprise rates, reserved instance discounts, and savings plans. Shared costs, credits, and refunds can be allocated using custom rules.

Is my data secure?

Yes! Vega’s platform uses enterprise-grade security with SSO, MFA, RBAC, and row-level security for fine-grained access control. See the Vega Trust Center for more details.