Statement of variance · acme-prod · 2026-07

Amounts in EUR. Period closed 31 July 2026.

Budget48 000 declared once, per account

Actual47 720 billing export, period closed

Variance -0.6% 280 under the line

Unowned spend 6 640 14% across 57 resources with no team tag

Readings

variance=-0.6%
top_mover=nat-gateway/eu-west-1
unowned_spend=14%

The same values as the JSON feed and /metrics, for whoever holds a feed token.

Year to date

Spent187 460 since 2026-01, 4 of 7 months on file

Budgeted192 000 the lines those statements were held against

Against the line -2.4% −4 540

Whether the annual number is still recoverable cannot be said yet: 3 month(s) of this fiscal year have no statement, so the spend so far is not all counted.

Forecast, unchanged

2026-08 47 720 inside the 48 000 line

Year end — a month so far has no statement

Method: run rate — the closing month's daily spend, carried across every day of the next month. Stored when this statement was written, and scored against the actual once 2026-08 closes.

Last month's forecast for 2026-07 was 48 029; it came to 47 720, +0.6% high.

Month	Forecast	Actual	Off by
2026-05	47 750	47 050	+1.5%
2026-06	45 532	46 480	-2.0%
2026-07	48 029	47 720	+0.6%
2026-08	47 720	48 340	-1.3%
2026-09	46 781	53 660	-12.8%

47 720 against 46 480 in 2026-06: a change of +1 240, and the movements below total +1 240.

Movements, ranked by amount

Rank	Movement	Line	Attributed to
1	+960	NAT gateway, eu-west-1	svc-media launch: uploads routed through a private subnet
2	+280	S3 standard	nothing in the data attributes it

Rank

Movement

Line

Attributed to

+960

NAT gateway, eu-west-1

svc-media launch: uploads routed through a private subnet

+280

S3 standard

nothing in the data attributes it

Every month of acme-prod

History · acme-prod

Month	Budget	Actual	Variance	Unowned	Statement
2026-09	48 000	53 660	+5 660 +11.8%	7 510 14%	Read it
2026-08	48 000	48 340	+340 +0.7%	6 910 14%	Read it
2026-07 this one	48 000	47 720	−280 -0.6%	6 640 14%
2026-06	48 000	46 480	−1 520 -3.2%	6 050 13%	Read it
2026-05	48 000	47 050	−950 -2.0%	6 120 13%	Read it
2026-04	48 000	46 210	−1 790 -3.7%	5 980 13%	Read it

Each movement is attributed by the organisation's ownership rules (cloudledger rule): a tag, a linked account or a name pattern. What none of them claims is unowned, and that is the finding. The costed actions are not built yet.

Monthly report

Cloud spend in July 2026 was 47 720, 0.6% below the monthly budget of 48 000.

Not every earlier month of the year is on record here, so this report gives no year-to-date figure.

NAT gateway, eu-west-1 added 960: svc-media launch: uploads routed through a private subnet. (NAT gateway: the service that lets private servers reach the internet, billed per gigabyte it carries.)

S3 standard added 280; nothing in the data attributes it. (S3: file storage.)

Unowned spend is 6 640, 14% of the bill, spread across 57 resources carrying no team tag. It cannot be attributed to anyone, and it will appear in every report until the tags exist.

No forecast is made yet, so this report does not say where next month lands.

No costed actions are recorded for this account yet.

Prepared for acme-prod · period closed 31 July 2026 · written 2026-10-02 · plain text · as an email · who it is mailed to