Glossary

Key terms used throughout CloudVerse AI documentation.

Term	Meaning
Account	A connected cloud billing or resource scope — for example, an AWS account, Azure subscription, or GCP project.
AKO	The CloudVerse AI Kubernetes Optimizer. Provides policy-driven workload right-sizing for Kubernetes clusters.
Allocation	A rule or result that assigns cloud cost to a specific team, product, cost center, or Perspective owner.
Anomaly	An unexpected or predicted change in cloud spend, detected by ML or by a custom rule.
Amortized cost	Upfront commitment costs (Reserved Instances, Savings Plans) spread evenly across the commitment period.
Budget	A user-defined spend limit for a scope and period, paired with forecast tracking and configurable alerts.
Chargeback	The practice of billing internal teams or business units for the cloud costs they generate.
Commitment	A purchase agreement that exchanges usage commitment for a discounted price. Includes Reserved Instances (AWS), Savings Plans (AWS), Azure Reservations, and GCP Committed Use Discounts (CUDs).
Confidence	A rating that describes how strongly the available usage evidence supports a recommendation. High confidence means more data; low confidence means less data or inconsistent patterns.
Cost type	The billing dimension being measured — for example, on-demand, blended, amortized, or net cost.
CUR	Cost and Usage Report — AWS's detailed billing export, required for full CloudVerse AWS integration.
Dynamic Perspective scope	An access restriction applied to a user that limits their visible cost data to a specific Perspective.
Effective scope	The final access boundary applied to a user after combining their role permissions and Perspective scope.
Entitlement	A software license right — for example, a Windows Server license or a database engine license running in the cloud.
External user	A user whose email domain does not match the organization's registered domain.
Gross cost	Total charges before credits, discounts, or savings are applied.
Integration	A configured connection between CloudVerse AI and a cloud provider, data platform, or collaboration tool.
Monthly impact	The estimated monthly financial effect of a recommendation or optimization action.
Net cost	Cost after credits, discounts, and savings are applied.
Perspective	A user-defined business view that maps cloud resources and spend to teams, products, environments, or cost centers. Used for filtering, allocation, budgeting, and scoped access.
Provider	A cloud, SaaS, data platform, AI, or telemetry vendor connected to CloudVerse AI.
Recommendation	An evidence-backed opportunity to reduce cost, improve resource utilization, or improve governance.
Region	A provider geographic location where a resource or service is deployed.
Reserved Instance (RI)	An AWS commitment that provides a discounted hourly rate in exchange for a 1-year or 3-year usage commitment.
Resource	A discovered cloud asset — an EC2 instance, RDS database, storage bucket, Kubernetes node, AI model endpoint, or data platform entity.
Risk	An operational impact rating for a recommendation — how disruptive or reversible the proposed change is.
Savings Plan	An AWS or Azure commitment that provides discounted pricing in exchange for consistent usage spend over 1 or 3 years.
Service	A cloud provider product or service family associated with cost or resources — for example, Amazon EC2, Azure SQL Database, or Google Cloud Storage.
Tenant	A CloudVerse AI organization instance.
Tenant Admin	The built-in role with full access to all CloudVerse AI features and settings.
Tenant user	A user whose email domain matches the organization's registered domain.
Unit Economics	A measurement that correlates cloud cost with a business activity or output — for example, cost per transaction or cost per active user.
Utilization	The percentage of provisioned or requested capacity that is actually being used by a resource.
Workspace	A logical grouping of resources and users that defines an access boundary within CloudVerse AI.