# Integrated Cost Visibility & Governance for Kubernetes

Last week, we wrapped up "hands-on enablement" on our recently released "Integrated Cost Management" service for approximately 25 technologists. Here's what the team experienced in the 60-minute lab.

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**1. What does it take to enable cost visibility and management for a fleet of clusters spanning Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, and on-premises clusters in data centers?**

With the Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform, you can do this literally in a [**"single click/step"**](https://docs.rafay.co/learn/quickstart/cost_management/overview/).

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**2. How can organizations achieve fine-grained visibility into Kubernetes costs for the following scenarios:**

- For all clusters in the organization
- For all clusters in a project (business unit, operating environment)
- For specific [workspaces](https://docs.rafay.co/security/tenancy/workspace/) (soft tenancy on shared Kubernetes clusters)
- For specific namespaces (shared Kubernetes clusters)
- For specific k8s resources in a namespace (multiple applications in a namespace)

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**3. How can organizations implement "chargeback" and "show back" in my organization?**

It is critical to let application teams (aka cluster users) know what their "Kubernetes spend" is so that they can optimize usage.

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**4. How can organizations implement a process to drive down "resource wastage" in Kubernetes?**

We specifically set up the users with an environment that had "over-provisioned" and "expensive" clusters. In the hands-on lab, they experienced what it takes to achieve the following:

- Provide visibility into costs to the organization and application teams in the form of chargebacks and show backs.
- Use the cost and metrics data to implement a process to "right size" resources and bring "costs under control"

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## Interested in Learning More?

Here are some resources that should help you learn more about this service:

- [Documentation](https://docs.rafay.co/cost_management/overview/)
- [Getting Started](https://docs.rafay.co/learn/quickstart/cost_management/overview/)
- [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD4VGKbnhh8)

[Start for Free](/content/start/index.html) if you want to try this out yourself.