Overview:
Functions
- Cloud Consumption Visibility
- Cloud Consumption Optimization
- Cloud Consumption Control
- Automated Chargeback and Budgeting
- Automate Day-to-day Cloud Ops
As multicloud adoption increases, cloud teams need tooling that provides unified visibility across on-prem and public clouds, along with automated cost governance policies to keep their cloud spend within budgets.
Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) - Cost Governance (formerly Beam) helps customers with:
- Unified visibility into their on-prem, AWS, Azure, and GCP consumption.
- 35% or more cost savings by right-sizing resources, automating tasks, and optimizing purchase plans.
- Delivering accurate chargeback reports that help drive financial accountability.
Benefits:
The Benefits of Cost Governance
Achieve greater visibility, optimization and control across public, private and hybrid multicloud environments to keep cloud costs under control.

Visibility
Visibility into public and private cloud spending simplifies cost management and multicloud governance.

Optimization
Save more by automating tasks, rightsizing resources and making smarter reserved instance purchases.

Control
Allocate resource costs based on consumption and drive governance with multicloud chargeback.
Availability:
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NCM Pro |
NCM Ultimate |
NCM Cost Gov as a Service |
TCO and Cost Metering for Private Cloud Resources |
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Budgeting and Alerts |
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Spend Dashboards & Analytics |
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ML based Anomalous spending patterns detection |
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Chargeback Reports with Tags |
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Cost visibility for Public Cloud Resources |
with Cloud add-on |
with Cloud add-on |
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Unified multicloud Dashboards & Analytics |
with Cloud add-on |
with Cloud add-on |
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Cloud Resource Optimization Recommendation* |
with Cloud add-on |
with Cloud add-on |
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Low Code Automation |
with Cloud add-on |
with Cloud add-on |
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Note
- NCM licenses can be purchased and applied on the number of physical CPU cores capacity in your deployment. Licenses are portable across hardware platforms and area available in 1 through 5-year term options.
- Cost Governance will also be available as a fully managed SaaS option - Cost Governance as a Service - and will be available to purchase as a la carte. Please contact Nutanix Sales for further details.
- NCM Cost Governance fits into NCM tiers- to see how these features are broken into tiers, please go to the Nutanix Cloud Platform Software Options page.
- NCM Pro and Ultimate tiers also include Advanced AI Operations, Self-Service and Orchestration functionality in addition to Cost Governance. NCM Ultimate also has Security Central functionality
* Applicable for AWS and Azure