Cost Breakdown

See where your cloud budget is going with detailed breakdowns by service, account, or tag. Noros analyzes your cost and usage data and presents clear, actionable insights — just ask a question in plain language.

What You Can Explore

Spending by Service

Understand which cloud services are driving your costs:

• "What are my top 5 most expensive AWS services?"
• "How much are we spending on RDS?"
• "Show me a cost breakdown by service for last month"

Spending by Account

See how costs are distributed across your linked accounts or projects:

• "Break down costs by linked account"
• "Which account is spending the most?"
• "Show me the production account's cost breakdown"

Spending by Tag

If you use resource tags, Noros can break down costs by any tag dimension:

• "Break down spending by team tag for Q1"
• "What are we spending on resources tagged environment=production?"
• "Show costs grouped by cost center tag"

Spending by Region

Identify geographic cost distribution:

• "How much are we spending in eu-west-1?"
• "Break down costs by region"
• "Which region is our most expensive?"

Spending by Usage Type

Get granular on specific usage categories:

• "What's our data transfer spend?"
• "Break down EC2 costs by usage type"
• "How much are we spending on storage vs. compute?"

Granularity

Noros supports multiple levels of time granularity so you can zoom in on exactly the timeframe that matters:

• Monthly — High-level overviews and quarter-over-quarter trends
• Daily — Day-by-day visibility for identifying specific cost events
• Hourly — Fine-grained analysis for investigating spikes and intra-day patterns

Combining Filters

You can combine multiple dimensions in a single question:

• "Show me EC2 costs in us-east-1 grouped by instance type for the last 3 months"
• "What's our S3 spend by linked account, excluding the dev account?"
• "Break down Lambda costs by region for Q1"

Automated Insights

When analyzing your costs, Noros automatically highlights key takeaways:

• Largest spend areas — Where the bulk of your budget is going
• Highest growth — Services or resources with the largest percentage increase
• Cost drivers — The underlying factors behind spending changes

Example Conversations

Understanding a cost increase:

"Why is my bill so high this month?"

Noros breaks down your spending by service, identifies the primary drivers, and shows specific dollar amounts and percentage changes.

Departmental reporting:

"What did the data team spend on analytics services in March?"

Noros filters your cost data by the relevant tags, services, and time period to deliver a precise answer.

Go Further with North

Noros delivers cost breakdowns through conversation. With North, you also get interactive visual dashboards — a full cost explorer with drag-and-drop filters, grouping by up to two attributes, automated KPIs, and export to table format. Learn more about upgrading →