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# Configuring Cloud Cost Management

# Configuring Cloud Cost Management {#ariaid-title1}

* Release version: Yokohama
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* Updated January 30, 2025
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## Summary of Configuring Cloud Cost Management

Configuring Cloud Cost Management in ServiceNow enables your organization to gain comprehensive visibility into total cloud consumption, control and reduce cloud costs, and optimize cloud platform operations.
The process involves installing necessary applications, setting up access and data integrations with your cloud providers, and configuring features to manage cloud resources effectively.
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## Configuration Process

* **Install Cloud Cost Management Applications:** Obtain and install the Cloud Cost Management application and optionally the Cloud Cost Management Infra Stack application (available from version 8.1 onward). Note that once activated, the Infra Stack application cannot be deactivated.
* **Assign Roles:** Assign appropriate Cloud Cost Management roles to users and groups based on their responsibilities to ensure proper access and control.
* **Install and Configure MID Servers:** Deploy MID servers to facilitate data exchange between ServiceNow Discovery and your cloud platforms. Configure these servers specifically for your cloud provider accounts (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud) to enable data collection.
* **Discover Cloud Resources:** Use either the Cloud Discovery application or Service Graph Connectors to identify service accounts, credentials, and MID servers that scan your cloud environment.
* **Access Billing and Usage Data:** Set up necessary permissions and connections to download billing and usage data from your AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud accounts, ensuring accurate cost tracking.
* **Schedule Data Download Jobs:** Configure and manage scheduled jobs within Cloud Cost Management to regularly download billing data and price sheets from your cloud providers, keeping cost data current.
* **Configure Cloud Cost Management Features:** Leverage features such as rightsizing, managing unused and unassigned resources, handling reservation or saving plans, and defining business hours to optimize cloud resource utilization and cost.

## Expected Outcomes

By following this configuration process, ServiceNow customers can expect to:

* Gain accurate, real-time visibility into cloud consumption and costs across multiple cloud platforms.
* Identify opportunities to reduce costs through rightsizing and eliminating unused or unassigned resources.
* Optimize cloud operations by effectively managing reservation plans and scheduling usage according to business hours.
* Empower users with appropriate roles to efficiently manage cloud cost data and analytics.  
Plan and configure Cloud Cost Management to gain visibility into your total cloud consumption, reduce costs, and optimize the operations of your cloud platforms.

## Configuration overview {#configuring-cloud-insights__section_yml_hfk_vwb}

Here's an overview of the process for configuring Cloud Cost Management.
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| Step | Action | Resource |
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| Install Cloud Cost Management | Get the Cloud Cost Management application from the [ServiceNow Store](https://store.servicenow.com/sn_appstore_store.do#!/store/home). | [Install Cloud Cost Management](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/PhRakx2QxYwbsvO9L0ibBQ "You can install the Cloud Cost Management application (sn_clin) if you have the admin role.The application includes demo data and installs related ServiceNow Store applications and plugins if they aren’t already installed.") |
| Install Cloud Cost Management Infra Stack | Get the Cloud Cost Management Infra Stack application from the [ServiceNow Store](https://store.servicenow.com/sn_appstore_store.do#!/store/home). Important: The Cloud Cost Management Infra stack application is available with Cloud Cost Management version 8.1 and later. Installing the Cloud Cost Management Infra Stack application is optional. However, if you've activated this application, you can't deactivate it later. | [Install Cloud Cost Management Infra Stack](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/OJoRsNPNIqKpD84BpsPNmw "You can install the Cloud Cost Management Infra Stack application (sn_cld_infra_stack) if you have the admin role.The application includes installs related ServiceNow Store applications and plugins if they are not already installed.") |
| Assign roles | Assign Cloud Cost Management roles to user groups and to individual users based on user activities and responsibilities. | [Cloud Cost Management roles](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/FcxF1Ic2L9tqHDiIhm~k2A "You assign Cloud Cost Management roles to user groups and to individual users based on user activities and responsibilities.") |
| Install MID servers | Install the MID servers to enable the movement of data between the Discovery application and your cloud platform. | [Installing the MID Server](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=mid-server-installation&version=yokohama&pubname=yokohama-servicenow-platform&ft:locale=en-US) |
| Configure MID Servers | Configure the MID Servers for enabling the Discovery application to communicate with your cloud provider accounts. | * [Configuring access to CI data on your AWS account](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/0yd0f~F8UJSAd~gU7vByKQ "To ensure secure and reliable communications, the Discovery process communicates with your cloud provider accounts and cloud resources through one or more MID Servers. You can set up the MID Servers on your network or in one of your cloud networks.") * [Configuring access to CI data on your Microsoft Azure account](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/XOfD0rg6R6aQx9F7O9A4Uw "To enable Discovery to communicate with your Microsoft Azure account, you specify your Service Principal credentials while configuring the MID Servers that communicate with your Microsoft Azure account.") * [Configuring access to CI data on your Google Cloud account](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/yf_iUFA1SFB8ROUcyepY6w "To ensure secure and reliable communications, the Discovery process communicates with your cloud provider accounts and cloud resources through one or more MID Servers. You can set up the MID Servers on your network or in one of your cloud networks.") {#configuring-cloud-insights__ul_ylq_blb_bxb} |
| Discover your cloud resources | Discover the service accounts, the credentials for accessing the accounts, and the MID Servers that scan the resources using one of the mentioned approaches. | * [Using the Cloud Discovery application](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/zZs5pJXP6_MWIH7pjE0b~A "Select the service accounts to discover, the credentials for accessing the accounts, and the MID Servers that scan the resources. If you use the Discovery application, the Discovery Manager wizard simplifies the configuration process for discovering cloud attributes. If you use a different method for discovering resources, you can skip this configuration operation.") * [Using the Service Graph Connectors](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=cmdb-sgc-available&version=yokohama&pubname=yokohama-servicenow-platform&ft:locale=en-US) {#configuring-cloud-insights__ul_mbt_3ps_wgc} |
| Schedule and manage jobs to download billing data for Cloud Cost Management | Provide the Cloud Cost Management application access to the billing and usage data of the used cloud platforms. | * [Set up access to AWS billing and usage data](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/XWTt8KqYYvPXm3q34bTqEA "Set up access to AWS billing and usage data by following the steps.") * [Set up access to Microsoft Azure billing and usage data](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/iry2rwulwdwxDuyKccUjBg "Set up access to Microsoft Azure billing and usage data depending on your agreement type.") * [Set up access to Google Cloud billing and usage data](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/dQCnGQoDywK8bQPUA6QeYQ "Set up access to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) billing and usage data by following the steps.") {#configuring-cloud-insights__ul_a1z_wq3_ywb} |
| Schedule and manage jobs to download price sheets for Cloud Cost Management | Enable Cloud Cost Management to download and store price sheet data of the used cloud platforms. | * [Schedule and manage the Cloud Cost Management jobs that download AWS price sheets](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/3Avus0Ag1ivTqw1DiS4ivA "A Price Sheet Download job downloads and stores price sheet data. The Rightsizing and Unused resources processes use price sheet data when generating recommendations.") * [Schedule and manage the Cloud Cost Management jobs that download Microsoft Azure price sheets](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/_dYO2obTwYcvyxvuCukyZg "A Price Sheet Download job downloads and stores price sheet data. The Rightsizing and Unused resources processes use price sheet data when generating recommendations.") * [Schedule and manage the Cloud Cost Management jobs that download Google Cloud price sheets](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/fVP3oUtKhl_Ig4Fyr7Ge4g "A Price Sheet Download job downloads and stores price sheet data.") {#configuring-cloud-insights__ul_h1q_rr3_ywb} |
| Configure the Cloud Cost Management features | Configure the Cloud Cost Management features to rightsize, identify, assign, manage, and analyze usage data of your cloud resources. | * [Reservation or Saving plans](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/jCgPr6bQAsgZbVznBraJZg "The Reservation or Saving plans feature recommends resources that could decrease costs by the conversion of on-demand payment plans to reservation plans. These plans are also called committed-use discounts, committed-use savings plans, or reserved instance plans.") * [Rightsizing resources](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/KpmWctQ0u9eHhYw_9QD~ng "The Rightsizing feature analyzes resource usage to recommend better sizes for resources that are wasting money by being over-provisioned or underused. A confidence rating and predicted savings support each recommendation. Schedule Rightsizing jobs to resize the resources you specify.") * [Unused resources](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/4JNOmIkgq5~Ogel0Ves6Ug "The Unused resources feature analyzes usage data to identify resources that are wasting money because they aren’t used. Schedule Unused resources jobs to power off or terminate the resources that you specify.") * [Business hours](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/gjS275TJSlDltrrrE4qdrA "A Business hours job applies policies to identify resources that are running when they should be powered off, reports them, and can start and stop them on a schedule that you specify. Running only during specified business hours can significantly reduce your cloud spend.") * [Unassigned resources](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/kSWjLavdZqHY3ApblY~8Yw#ur-cloudin "Unassigned resources policies help you to identify the resources that aren’t associated with a change group and to assign them appropriately. When a resource is assigned to the correct group, the resource can be appropriately governed even as it goes through stages such as patching, upgrading, and reconfiguring.") {#configuring-cloud-insights__ul_pzn_yjl_vwb} |
| Use Cloud Cost Management | Gain visibility into your total cloud consumption, reduce costs, and optimize operations of your cloud platforms. | [Using Cloud Cost Management](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/62jDSqb2NRpedxT3bdvUTg "Use Cloud Cost Management to rightsize, identify, assign, manage, and analyze usage data of your cloud resources.") |
[Table 1. Configure Cloud Cost Management]

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