Cloud Connector Estimated Cost

Within the Evolution Platform — specifically in the On-Demand Cloud Connect interface — the Estimated Costs tab is accessible from the cloud connector details page. This view enables users to retrieve and visualize the connector’s financial consumption over a user-defined time period.

Key benefits

• Enables detailed oversight of financial consumption for each cloud connector based on selected granularity (monthly, daily, hourly, etc.).
• Facilitates observation of bandwidth usage trends to optimize adjustments in accordance with operational requirements.

Conditions:

• Enables detailed oversight of financial consumption for each cloud connector based on selected granularity (monthly, daily, hourly, etc.).

• Facilitates observation of bandwidth usage trends to optimize adjustments in accordance with operational requirements.

  
  
  

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• Current financial consumption over the selected period, displayed either as a daily or hourly cost. Users can further refine their view by using the zoom bar on the period.

Ongoing spend - on daily basis

Ongoing spend - on hourly basis

• Detailed financial consumption by period based on the number of hours and the values of Reserved and Configured Bandwidth consumed, including:

  • Usage price per hour + currency

  • Usage cost according to the number of hours consumed

    

• Evolution of the cloud connector’s bandwidth between Reserved Bandwidth and Configured Bandwidth over the selected period (if any changes occur). Users can zoom in on the period using the zoom bar.

  

If a period is selected during which the cloud connector has no usage consumption, the Estimated Cost page will be displayed with the following message: ‘No available data for this chosen time, please try again later.

This API is available here: Cloud Connectivity Inventory API