Role Data Access

Linking the sub accounts to the Roles

To define who can see what data, you need to assign sub-accounts to roles. Use these guidelines to keep it simple.

Use Cost Centers

Create the required hierarchy, it will serve for data access as well as data viewing.
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Use Accounts

If not using Cost Centers, prefer to use complete accounts where possible. Umbrella will take care adding/removal of sub accounts for you.

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Terminology

Accounts is the name to describe:

  • AWS Payer accounts
  • Azure Billing accounts
  • GCP Billing accounts
  • FOCUS Billing accounts

Sub accounts is the name to describe:

  • AWS Linked accounts
  • Azure subscriptions
  • GCP projects
  • FOCUS sub accounts

Other BYOD and native vendors similar account definitions

Always visible menu items

These menu items are available no matter what role is assigned to you.

The data visible to you is determined by the accounts and/or sub accounts assigned to your role.

  • Cost and Usage Explorer
  • Anomaly Detection
  • Assets
  • costGPT