If you've ever opened a cloud bill and thought, "Okay, but what does all this actually mean?" — welcome to the club.

AWS, Azure, and GCP give you plenty of billing data. Every resource, every operation, every region — lots of details, lots of numbers.

Technically, everything is there.

Practically, good luck figuring out where your money goes without spending half your afternoon on it.

As engineers, we love raw data. Give us logs, IDs, timestamps, and a terminal, and we're happy. But when it comes to cloud costs, sometimes you just want a simple answer to a simple question:

What exactly are we paying for?

The problem with raw billing data

Cloud billing data can be very detailed.…