Connecting Cloud Data

Before Flexera can analyze your cloud spending, you must connect your cloud provider accounts.

What This Step Does

Connecting your cloud accounts allows Flexera to:

• Import cost and usage data.
• Analyze cloud spending.

How to Connect Cloud Data

1. On the Getting Started dashboard, click Start on the Connect Cloud Data card.
2. Select your cloud provider (for example, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud).
3. Follow the guided setup instructions to authorize access.
4. Confirm the connection.

Once connected, Flexera begins importing billing and usage data.

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Data ingestion may take some time depending on the cloud provider.

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For detailed information about connecting your cloud billing data, see Connect cloud billing data and Bill Data Connections.