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Cloud bills are noisy — millions of line items, no sense of priority. Digest cuts through the chaos by surfacing only the changes that matter, ranked by real dollar impact.
Digest

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Using Digest to Automate Cost Reviews

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Setup Digest Config

To receive your first digest, you need to configure the cost breakdown tree. You can change this configuration anytime you want.
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Current Period
date range
default:"last month"
The time window to analyze
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Reference Period
date range
default:"previous month"
The comparison period to measure changes against
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Tree Structure
Array[dimension]
default:"[Provider, (Sub-)Account Id, Service]"
How to break down costs

Virtual Dimensions

Learn how to split costs by team, product, or environment.
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Immediately see what changed and why

You will now see a summary of all changes, split by the configured tree structure and ranked by the highest overall cost impact.The tree will auto-expand and auto-collapse nodes based on their overall cost impact and relevance.
Digest
Each node includes a one-line summary of the cost changes and their total impact. Click on a node to see the detailed cost incident report.
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Deep dive with Billy Cost Incident Summaries

You will now see a detailed cost incident report for each node.
Digest
The report includes:

Step changes

Trends

Events

Root Causes

Any Billy-generated report can be edited to add additional context and annotations.
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Share with your team

You can share a preview of the digest with your team via Slack or Email.
Digest
We are currently testing auto-scheduled digests to make the entire process hands-off after the initial setup. If you are interested in this feature, please reach out to us at contact@costory.io.All users are eligible, including free-trial users.

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Next Steps

Cost Explorer

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Slack Reports

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