An accurate forecast of you cloud spend helps you with creating better budgets, but it can also be used as a constant reminder that you need to stay on top of your cloud spend.

We have seen situations where a migration to the cloud took quite some time and so the monthly bill will show ever increasing numbers during that period. That could be a fine situation.

However, increasing cost in the past and predicted for the future can also be a sign of sub-optimal efficiency of your cloud deployments. This can be a trigger to dive deeper in your cloud score and missions to start improving the performance and efficiency of you cloud resources and lower your spend.