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Centralizing and Harmonizing Multi-Cloud Billing Data - Built with Retool | Widle

As companies increasingly adopt multicloud strategies, their cloud billing becomes scattered across platforms - AWS, Azure, GCP - and buried in inconsistent formats. This fragmentation makes it hard to get a single source of truth, and even harder to control costs.
At Widle, we help enterprises simplify and harmonize multi-cloud cost data using Retool, delivering a single-pane dashboard where finance, engineering, and operations teams can make fast, informed decisions.


🧩 What's the challenge?
Cloud billing data is complex and noisy:

  • AWS, GCP, and Azure all use different billing formats.
  • SKUs and service names differ across providers.
  • Tags and labels often don't align across teams or accounts.
  • Cost data is hard to centralize without moving it into a warehouse.

This creates friction when trying to:

  • Compare similar services across providers (e.g., EC2 vs. Azure VMs).
  • Roll up spend by department or business unit
  • Spot inefficient usage or underutilized services.
  • Automate financial reporting.

How Widle solves this using Retool
We build data harmonization workflows and intuitive Retool apps that sit on top of your existing data stack (BigQuery, Athena, Synapse, or a warehouse of your choice). Here's how:

  1. Unified Billing Schema Across Clouds We normalize billing exports into a standard schema, so EC2, GCP Compute Engine, and Azure VMs show up as one comparable category.
  2. Tag and Cost Center Mapping We sync tags across clouds and re-map them into unified business dimensions: project, owner, region, etc.
  3. Interactive Explorer Dashboards
    Using Retool's table, chart, and filter components, we create interfaces to:
    -- Drill down by cost center
    -- Compare spend across clouds
    -- Audit untagged resources

  4. No Data Movement Required
    You can query billing data directly from cloud-native tools (BigQuery, Athena, Synapse) without shifting it into a separate platform.

🚀 The Outcome

  • Finance, engineering, and executive teams now have:
  • One clear dashboard for total cloud spend.
  • Visibility into how each team contributes to cost.
  • Better alignment between engineering usage and finance goals.

Retool's flexibility allows us to customize this fast - whether you're a startup scaling fast or an enterprise with strict compliance.


🔗 Want to consolidate your cloud billing?
 📩 Let's talk: info@widle.studio

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