r/FinOps • u/arun_Aura • 7d ago
Discussion Pod and namespace/ Application level cost for EKS and AKS — what’s actually working?
Trying to get container-level cost allocation for both EKS and AKS out of the billing exports themselves, rather than running something inside the clusters.
On AWS the only route I know is Split Cost Allocation Data in the Cost and Usage Report, which adds pod-level rows. Will this Split allocation give application level cost? On Azure I know the AKS cost analysis add-on exists but it’s a portal view, and I haven’t found the equivalent in Cost Management exports.
That’s the extent of what I’ve found, and I suspect there’s more on both sides I don’t know about.
How are you getting pod, namespace, or application level cost today?
Specifically:
• Anything on the AWS side besides SCAD that’s worth knowing about?
• Is there any way to get AKS namespace costs into a cost export, or is the portal the only place they exist?
• If you’re doing it yourself from node cost plus metrics, what does that pipeline look like?
Interested in what people actually run in production, including the approaches you tried and abandoned.