One showback across AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, AI and data platforms
Teams see all their costs in one place, whatever the provider: cloud, Kubernetes, data platforms and LLM APIs.
Runs in
Claude · Slack
First optimization recommendation
The next day
ROI
Pays for itself with the first recommendation you act on
# finops
Costory
APP
Search team, September: €46,200 in total. AWS €28,900, BigQuery €7,400, Datadog €5,100, OpenAI €4,800. Biggest change: OpenAI +€1,900 after the semantic search rollout.
Engineering managers review one number per team instead of four reports.
Playbook
What the agent does
From what Costory notices to what you decide. Costory suggests the next step in conversation, and you decide whether to go ahead.
Costory notices
Every week, across every connected provider.
Context used
Remembered
Costory investigates
01
Connect every bill
Cloud exports plus LLM and data platform connectors, normalized into one schema.
02
Apply one allocation
The same Team dimension works across all providers.
03
Build the team view
The team cost overview template scopes everything per team.
04
Deliver
Weekly reports per team in Slack, Teams or email.
Where you see it
Claude
You decide
Engineering managers review one number per team instead of four reports.
Why it matters
A team running on AWS, BigQuery, Datadog and OpenAI gets four reports with four definitions. Showback only works when there is one number per team.
Who it’s for
FinOps leads, engineering managers
Where it runs
Claude · Slack
What you get
What lands in front of your team
One number per team
Across cloud, AI and data platforms.
Consistent definitions
Same schema and allocation everywhere.
Less reconciliation
No more stitching four exports together.
Sources and assistants
What it connects
Example prompts
Or drive it yourself
Show
Show the Search team's total cost last month across all providers, by provider and service.
FAQ
Questions about this playbook
What if our tagging is incomplete?
Costory's Virtual Dimensions allocate with rules on accounts, projects, names and partial tags, so you don't need perfect tagging to start. Shared and untagged cost is reallocated dynamically using the metrics you already have (Datadog, Tsuga, BigQuery, Snowflake and more), and the allocation stays consistent as usage moves.
How long does this playbook take to set up?
Connecting your billing data and the Costory MCP takes under 30 minutes with Terraform or CloudFormation. The playbook itself takes minutes: pick the scope, the trigger and the Slack channel. The first billing data lands the next day, and the agent starts from there.
Can we adjust what the agent does?
Yes. You choose the trigger, the scope (team, service, environment), the channel and the format, and you can pause or change it at any time.
Does Costory change anything in our cloud accounts?
No. Costory reads billing exports and the metrics you connect, and has no write access to your cloud. Actions it takes create Costory objects only: alerts, reports, dashboards and events. Your team stays in control of every change.
Step-by-step guide in the Costory docs
Related playbooks
Run these alongside it
Costory notices
Every Monday at 9:00, for each team.
Weekly showback per team, posted in each team's Slack channel
Every engineering team gets its own weekly cost report in its own Slack channel, scoped to the services it owns.
See the playbook
Costory notices
Every Monday, across every AI provider.
All AI spend in one view: OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock, Vertex AI and more
The agent tracks total AI spend across model APIs, cloud AI services and AI tools, and reports the weekly trend in one place.
See the playbook
Costory notices
Daily, as Snowflake usage refreshes.
Snowflake cost by warehouse, team and workload
Allocate Snowflake credits to teams and workloads using warehouses and query history, next to your cloud bill.
See the playbook
Put this playbook on call
Included in every plan, from €250/month. 30-day free trial: connect in under 30 minutes, get your first optimization recommendation the next day.
First optimization recommendation
The next day
ROI
Pays for itself with the first recommendation you act on
Setup
About 30 minutes
Data residency
EU
Access
Read-only on your cloud