Cost Allocations

Cost allocations is more intuitive and powerful feature, designed to help you create hierarchical structures for your costs using Cost Allocation Segments. These segments enable you to map costs to various organizational entities such as business units, teams, applications, or services. You can create up to three segments as needed by your business. Budgets can now be setup directly in the cost allocation page at any level which will allow you to track your expenses in one place. Finally, a cost allocation dashboard for the cost allocations can now be launched from the cost allocation report at any level. From here you can assess your costs further similar to the cost dashboard.

Why this matters: think of your cloud bill like a building. The business/root allocation is the building's single utility meter — it tells you the total, but nothing about who used what. Segments split that one meter by floor, then by department, then by desk — down to three levels deep — so spend can be traced to the business unit, application, or team that actually owns it. Shared costs are the lobby, elevators, and shared conference rooms: nobody's floor caused them alone, so they get split fairly across everyone who uses them. Together, these three pieces are the full attribution model — this page is the front door to all three.

This shows up differently depending on your role:

FinOps managers use the three-level structure (root → segments → shared costs) as the org's entire cost attribution model, instead of rebuilding one from scratch in a spreadsheet every cycle.
Finance leaders get one consistent hierarchy to run budgeting, chargeback, and showback against, refreshed automatically instead of re-exported and re-stitched every month.
Product and engineering leads can see their own slice of the bill — their business unit's segments and their share of shared costs — without waiting on FinOps to hand-run a report.

Cost Allocation Actions and Behavior

Cost Allocations allow users to organize and distribute costs across business units, teams, applications, projects, or other ownership structures. The Cost Allocations page also includes common actions that help users manage, review, and update allocation data.

Common Page Actions

The Cost Allocations page may include the following actions:

Action	Description
Search	Search for cost allocations by name or related details.
Sort	Sort records by available table columns.
Column Settings	Show, hide, or reorder columns in the table.
Reload	Refresh the latest cost allocation data.
Share	Copy or open a shareable link to the current view.
Screenshot	Capture the current page or view.
Help	Open the related help documentation.
Subscribe	Subscribe to updates or reports, if available.
Bookmark	Save the page or view for quick access.

Recalculation Behavior

When a cost allocation is created, edited, deleted, imported, or updated, Mavvrik may need to recalculate allocation results.

Recalculation may be required when users:

Create a new cost allocation.
Edit allocation scope, filters, dates, or cost options.
Add, update, or delete segment levels.
Add, update, or delete shared costs.
Update shared cost split methods or split ratios.
Import cost allocation configurations.

After recalculation is complete, updated allocation values are reflected in the Cost Allocation views and reports.

Expired Cost Allocations

Cost allocations may move to the Expired tab when their configured end date has passed.

Expired allocations:

Are no longer active for current allocation periods.
Can be reviewed for historical reference.
May include expired business allocations, segment allocations, or shared cost records.
Can be searched, sorted, or reviewed from the expired allocation view.

Import and Export Cost Allocations

Cost Allocations can be imported or exported when users need to manage allocation configuration in bulk or move configuration between environments.

Export Cost Allocation

Use export to download an existing cost allocation configuration.

Steps:

Go to Cost Allocations.
Select the allocation you want to export.
Open the action menu.
Click Export.
Download the exported file.

Import Cost Allocation

Use import to upload a cost allocation configuration file.

Steps:

Go to Cost Allocations.
Click Import.
Upload the supported file.
Review the imported allocation details.
Save or publish the imported allocation.

After import, review the allocation name, scope, filters, dates, segment levels, and shared cost rules before publishing.
Cost Allocation can be created at three levels

FAQs

What happens to an allocation after its end date passes?
It moves to the Expired tab rather than being deleted. It's no longer active for current allocation periods, but stays fully reviewable for historical reference — you can still search, sort, and review expired business allocations, segments, and shared cost records.

Why would I need to wait for recalculation after making a change?
Any structural change — editing scope/filters/dates, adding or removing a segment level, changing a shared cost's split method, or importing a new configuration — requires Mavvrik to recompute how costs flow through the hierarchy before the updated numbers show up in views and reports.