The cloud invoice has become one of the most serious headaches for service providers and large enterprises. As the use of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud grows, so does the complexity: dozens of accounts, environments, projects, and different clients… along with increasing pressure to control costs without slowing down innovation. In this context, ManageEngine has taken a significant step by transforming CloudSpend into a FinOps platform with multi-portal architecture aimed at MSPs, CSPs, and multi-tenant organizations.
The company, a division of Zoho Corporation, aims with this move to address a very specific problem: how to provide global visibility into cloud spending without mixing data between clients or business units. The answer comes in the form of a profound redesign of the cloud cost platform, with isolated portals and centralized governance.
What the new multi-portal architecture of CloudSpend brings
With the new version, CloudSpend allows a service provider or a large enterprise to create multiple isolated portals, one for each client or business unit, each with its own dashboards, budgets, alerts, and policies. Meanwhile, the central team (FinOps, CloudOps, IT, or the MSP itself) maintains a unified view of all expenditures from a common “control center.”
Practically, this translates into:
- Dedicated and isolated portals
Each client or BU sees only their data, with their own reports, budgets, and alert policies, maximizing information segregation. - Centralized and granular governance
The global administrator defines policies, thresholds, roles, and permissions, without losing the isolation of each portal. This helps meet confidentiality, compliance, and specific contractual requirements. - Simplified management and “white label”
CloudSpend allows managing all portals from a single console, automating internal billing processes (chargeback/showback), and generating reports branded with the provider’s or company’s logo, which is key for MSPs and consulting firms. - Real FinOps scalability
The same tool serves for a few cloud projects or hundreds of clients, scaling gradually without losing control.
Actionable FinOps data: recommendations, anomalies, and forecasting
Beyond the architecture, the update leverages CloudSpend’s already established capabilities aligned with modern FinOps practices:
- Smart savings recommendations
The platform analyzes resource usage (underutilized instances, oversized storage, poorly tuned reservations…) and suggests actions for rightsizing or shutdown to reduce “cloud waste.” - AI-powered anomaly detection
CloudSpend uses historical spend data to detect unusual spikes or anomalous patterns in near real-time. This enables quick reactions to misconfigured deployments, tagging errors, or services that unexpectedly spike in cost. - Budgets, alerts, and forecasts
Teams can set budgets by client, department, project, or tag; receive alerts when thresholds are exceeded; and use forecasting models to anticipate expenses in upcoming months. - Multi-cloud reports in a single view
CloudSpend consolidates expenses from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud into one dashboard. This is crucial for MSPs and companies operating in a true multi-cloud environment where costs are dispersed across different providers.
A pricing model aligned with FinOps
The CloudSpend pricing model has also been designed to be attractive to both MSPs and growing enterprises. According to the company itself:
- Usage is free for aggregated cloud bills up to $3,000 per month.
- Beyond that, the platform is billed at 1% of the monthly spend exceeding $3,000.
- For monthly expenses above $100,000, a custom price model is offered.
This “pay-as-you-go” approach makes it easier for organizations of various sizes to adopt FinOps practices without large fixed licenses. Additionally, there is a 30-day trial period to test the software before committing.
The challenge of cloud cost for MSPs and multi-tenant organizations
The decision to reinforce CloudSpend as a multi-portal FinOps platform is not accidental. Gartner has estimated that spending on public cloud services will reach $723.4 billion in 2025, reflecting both rapid adoption and growing cost concerns.
In this environment:
- MSPs and CSPs manage dozens or hundreds of clients with complex architectures.
- Multi-tenant companies (large groups with multiple business units, subsidiaries or brands) need to separate costs by project, country, or product line without losing overall visibility.
- Finance, IT, and business teams need a common language around cloud costs, something that FinOps discipline specifically seeks to achieve.
Until now, many teams relied on spreadsheets, manual reports, or partial tools from each cloud (AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, etc.). CloudSpend positions itself as a centralized alternative offering greater visibility and specific FinOps capabilities, maintaining a clear focus on multi-cloud management.
Beyond visibility: governance and shared responsibility
One of ManageEngine’s key messages is that visibility alone is no longer sufficient. The new multi-portal architecture aims to go a step further towards cost governance and shared responsibility:
- Central teams in FinOps or IT define global policies, best practices for tagging, reservation utilization, budget limits, and reporting frequency.
- Each client or business unit has its own portal, with dashboards tailored to its reality and the ability to see exactly what it is consuming and what decisions can be made to optimize.
This combination helps align economic and technical interests: the provider or company not only “passes the bill” but also provides transparency, early alerts, and concrete recommendations on how to reduce expenses.
CloudSpend within the ManageEngine ecosystem
CloudSpend is part of the ManageEngine portfolio, known for its monitoring, observability, IT management, and security solutions. The platform can integrate with other tools like Site24x7 to cross-reference performance and availability data with cost information, a highly valued capability in advanced observability and FinOps environments.
In a time when many organizations seek to consolidate providers and tools, having a unified ecosystem for monitoring, security, ITSM, and cost management can become a competitive advantage.
Frequently Asked Questions about CloudSpend and FinOps for MSPs and multi-tenant enterprises
What exactly is CloudSpend and who is it designed for?
CloudSpend is a cost management and optimization platform for the cloud designed for multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud). It is especially targeted at managed service providers (MSPs, CSPs) and large multi-tenant enterprises that need to control expenses across multiple clients, business units, or projects from a single console.
How does the multi-portal architecture help an MSP or large enterprise?
The multi-portal architecture allows creating independent portals for each client or business unit, with their own budgets, alerts, reports, and policies. Simultaneously, the central team maintains a global view of the expenses, can apply common policies, and ensures data segregation. This simplifies cloud cost governance and facilitates the deployment of FinOps practices at scale.
What advantages does CloudSpend offer over native tools from each cloud provider?
Native tools (such as AWS Cost Explorer or Azure Cost Management) tend to focus only on their environment. CloudSpend provides a unified multi-cloud view, multi-tenant capabilities, smart recommendations, anomaly detection, advanced budgeting, and white label options for MSPs. Its pricing is straightforward: just 1% of the spend exceeding $3,000 per month, with free tracking below that threshold.
How does CloudSpend fit into a broader FinOps strategy?
FinOps is more than just a tool; it’s a working discipline where finance, IT, and business share responsibility for cloud spending. CloudSpend provides metrics, dashboards, alerts, and recommendations that enable these teams to speak the same language: cost per product, client, or feature; spending trends; saving opportunities; and forecasts. Its multi-portal architecture also makes it possible to create “mini-FinOps” per client or area, maintaining centralized governance.
via: manageengine