Accurate cost allocation is fundamental to a strong FinOps practice. For the past five years, DoiT customers have used Attributions and Attribution Groups to assign cloud spend to the appropriate business units, applications, and projects. We're now introducing Allocations - a streamlined experience that unifies both features and expands what’s possible. 

Allocations allows you to organize and group costs using your own categories – like teams, products, or environments – so you can see exactly where cloud spend is going, identify shared costs, and find non-governed usage. Easily define custom groupings of cloud resources based on any combination of dimensions, labels, and tags even when cost data isn’t perfectly tagged. We’ve also added new ways to create flexible rules with filters like ‘starts with,’ ‘ends with’ and ‘includes.’ 

These allocations can be used to track usage and cost in Cloud Analytics reports, measure business-specific operational data with custom metrics, set budget scopes, detect cost anomalies, and receive daily or weekly digests. For costs that don't fit into defined rules within a group allocation, a pre-defined "Unallocated" bucket ensures nothing slips through.

We built Allocations to simplify cost grouping, reduce friction in the setup process, and boost adoption. The new feature offers a faster, more intuitive UI for defining allocation rules using operator logic. You can even duplicate existing allocations with a single click to save time. 

Allocations are now available for all customers. Existing Attributions, Attribution Groups,  and any linked reports, anomalies and budgets have been automatically migrated to Allocations.  

With everything in one place and easier to manage, Allocations improves your ability to implement and scale your FinOps practices.