Understanding the "price tag" of your cloud architecture shouldn't require switching between five different tools. This video walks through how to import data from Lucidscale (now Cloud Accelerator) to create a live, cost-aware model of your AWS environment.
What you’ll learn:
- How to assign imported cost data directly to your AWS shapes for granular tracking.
- How to use formulas to automatically roll up individual component prices into a total application cost. For full formula information, please refer to this documentation.
- How to use conditional formatting and dynamic shapes to visually compare your live spend against a manual budget.
- How to export your finalized cost model into a CSV for further reporting and analysis.
⚙️ A note on the UI
This video was produced around 2024. While Lucidscale is now Cloud Accelerator and the Lucid interface has been refreshed since then, the data-linking workflow and the formula logic for cloud cost modeling remain fully operational.
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