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- Small Business (11-50 people)
- Medium Business (51-250 people)
- Large Business (250+ people)
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Core Features
Cloud Ctrl treats cloud management as a data plumbing and decision-support problem: ingest vendor billing/usage reliably, normalise it into a common model, then drive action with forecasts, recommendations, limits, and reporting workflows. Some of its main features are:
Multi-cloud connectors: Connect AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, with support for multiple accounts/subscriptions.
Forecasts and recommendations: Use machine-learning spend forecasts plus aggregated vendor recommendations (and custom optimisations) to identify savings opportunities.
Spend alerts, budgets, and limits: Get notified on projected overspend and manage budgets/limits using Custom Views that group resources by tags, accounts, regions, and more.
Custom reporting and delivery: Build Custom Reports and schedule delivery by email to stakeholders and customers to reduce manual reporting cycles.
Emissions & energy estimates: Track CO2e and kWh across cloud accounts, with estimates calculated per line of usage data (based on Cloud Carbon Footprint’s model).
APIs and extensibility: Integrate through a REST API; add non-cloud cost lines via custom data connections and feeds.
Closing Insights
Cloud Ctrl was developed in Australia by SixPivot as a multi-cloud billing management and decision platform, with early recognition including a place in Anthill Magazine’s “SMART 100” index of innovative Australian products. Its roots in billing, subscription management, and partner/MSP workflows still show up in the product today: it’s built to handle many accounts, allocate costs even when tagging is imperfect, and share governed views with customers and stakeholders.
Where Cloud Ctrl stands out (versus generic ESG tools) is the operational “FinOps-first” spine: forecasting, anomaly monitoring, and enforceable limits are first-class features, and the emissions-and-energy view rides on top of the same usage dataset. In practice, it fits best when an organisation needs to keep cloud spend under control and also answer internal sustainability questions about cloud energy/CO2e without setting up a separate reporting pipeline. The platform also documents GDPR readiness for organisations operating under EU data protection obligations.
Cloud Ctrl offers a free start and paid plans via signup; pricing details are handled through its plan selection flow. Integrations include multi-cloud connectors plus a REST API, and teams can extend datasets via custom data connections.