Introduction to Orbit
Orbit is your SKYXOPS workspace for multi-cloud FinOps. It brings your AWS, Azure, and GCP spend into one place so you can explore costs, allocate them to the teams and products that drive them, tune budgets, and act on savings. You do not need to export a spreadsheet or write a query.
Orbit reads a normalized, FOCUS-aligned view of your cloud bills and resource inventory, so a dollar means the same thing whether it came from an EC2 instance, an Azure VM, or a BigQuery job.
Start with the Quickstart: connect your first cloud account and get to your first cost view in about 15 minutes.
What you can do
Orbit is organized around the FinOps lifecycle, and the sidebar follows the same shape: Connect, then Inform, then Optimize, then Operate.
Under Connect, you connect your AWS, Azure, and GCP accounts so Orbit can read cost and inventory.
Under Inform, you see and understand your spend:
| Area | What it's for |
|---|---|
| Explore | Query your cloud data live, then save it as an Insight and share it. |
| Dashboards | Pin saved Insights onto boards to monitor many of them together. |
| Cost Overview | A curated FinOps board with headline KPIs, spend by provider, and the monthly trend. |
| Virtual Tags | Normalize raw cloud tag keys into business concepts. |
| Resources | A live CMDB of every resource across your clouds. |
Under Optimize, you cut waste:
| Area | What it's for |
|---|---|
| Sensors & Recommendations | Detectors that surface cost-saving opportunities, ranked by monthly savings. |
Under Operate, you plan and report:
| Area | What it's for |
|---|---|
| Budgets | Budget-vs-actual, rolled up through your organization tree. |
| Reports | Freeze a view into a point-in-time document to export or hand out. |
Who Orbit is for
| Who | What you do in Orbit |
|---|---|
| Finance & FinOps | Allocate spend, set budgets, and hold teams accountable with showback (showing each team what it spent) and chargeback (billing it back). |
| Platform & DevOps | Find waste, act on Recommendations, and keep tagging clean. |
| Engineering & product leaders | See what your services and features actually cost. |
How the pieces fit together
A typical first month in Orbit follows the FinOps lifecycle:
- In the Inform phase, connect your clouds, then Explore spend and build Virtual Tags so every dollar is attributed.
- In the Optimize phase, review the Recommendations your Sensors surface and act on the biggest ones.
- In the Operate phase, set Budgets, pin Dashboards, and export Reports to keep everyone aligned.
When you are ready, go to the Quickstart.