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Visibility
Tagging, cost per team and project, and dashboards each audience can act on.
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From raw bills to cost per owner
Join what the providers bill with who owns what. NGT builds the cost model once and keeps it fed.
Data inWhat owners get
Cost modelallocation rules per team, project and environment
Point at a source to see what it feeds, or at a result to see where it comes from.
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An allocation standard people keep
Allocation fails when tags are optional. The standard is agreed once and enforced where resources are created.
- Account structure firstAccounts or subscriptions per team and environment carry most of the allocation; tags fill in the rest.
- Tags set by templatesIaC modules and golden-path templates add the tags, so nobody types them by hand.
- Enforced by policyUntagged resources flagged or rejected at creation: Azure Policy, AWS tag and service control policies, pipeline checks.
- Shared costs split by ruleNetwork, logging and support split across teams by an agreed key, not left in a central bucket.
Five mandatory tags
- ownerwho acts on the cost
- team
- project
- environmentdevelopment · test · production
- cost-centrewhere finance books it
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Who sees what, and how often
One cost model, several views. Teams see their own cost first; charge-back comes once the numbers are trusted.
| Who | What they see | How often |
|---|---|---|
| Engineering teams | Cost of their services by environment; idle and oversized resources | Alerts as they happen; monthly review |
| Project and product owners | Spend against budget and forecast per project | Threshold alerts; monthly review |
| Finance | Trends, rates, commitment coverage, allocation by business unit | Monthly and yearly |
| FinOps or platform team | Anomalies, untagged resources, savings from potential to realised | Daily, and at the monthly board |
SourcesNGT FinOps Service Offering (Mar 2025)NGT Cloud Operation Service Offering v0.2 (Jan 2025)NGT Azure Service Offering v1.0 (Dec 2024)NGT Google Cloud Service Offering v0.1NGT DevOps–AI Service Offering (Oct 2026)FPT Software Cloud Transformation Capabilities (2024)FinOps Foundation: FinOps Principles