See Every Cloud Cost: How Widle Uses Retool to Build Unified Multicloud Visibility Tools

in #retool3 days ago (edited)

Cloud cost management isn't just a finance problem anymore - it's a critical cross-functional challenge affecting DevOps, Finance, Engineering, and even Product teams. As companies adopt multicloud strategies (AWS, Azure, GCP), most realize:

Our cloud bills are high, but we don't know exactly why - or where to act.

At Widle, we solve this using Re
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tool - building custom internal tools that connect, normalize, visualize, and alert you on cloud spending across platforms.

🧩 The Challenge
Enterprises often face:

  • Fragmented billing data across providers
  • Non-unified service naming (e.g., S3 vs Azure Blob vs GCP Storage)
  • Unclear attribution of costs to teams/projects
  • No real-time forecasting or alerting for budget thresholds
  • Finance teams relying on manual spreadsheets & inconsistent reports

Retool-Powered Cloud Cost Tool - Widle

We use Retool's ability to connect to APIs, data warehouses, and cloud billing exports to create a unified cloud cost intelligence tool, fully customizable per client.

✅ Features We Build:

  • Multicloud Spend Dashboard - Live dashboards pulling billing data from AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, and GCP Billing exports.
  • Standardized Service Mapping - Normalize costs by SKU/service type so you can compare similar workloads across clouds.
  • Real-Time Budget Monitoring - Alerts via Slack/Email when services or departments cross budget thresholds.
  • Cost Attribution by Tag/Team - Attribution by cost centers, tags, owners, and environments - all filterable in a Retool UI.
  • Custom Forecasting - Predict month-end costs based on daily usage trends and growth rate.
  • Linked Optimization Actions - We add buttons to trigger remediation: e.g., decommission idle resources or open a ticket for review.

🧠 Why Retool?
Traditional cloud cost tools are expensive, rigid, and not tailored to your business logic.
With Retool + Widle, you get:

  • Custom views and logic built around your tagging conventions and org structure
  • No vendor lock-in - we integrate directly into your data warehouse or cloud billing export
  • Rapid delivery - Go from problem to working dashboard in 1–2 weeks, not months

📈 Outcomes from Our Clients
Companies working with Widle on cloud visibility tools have reported:

  • 30–50% faster financial reporting cycles
  • Up to 20% cloud spend reduction in under 90 days
  • Improved collaboration between Engineering and Finance
  • Proactive decommissioning of unused resources
  • Real-time visibility into spend per product, team, or environment

🔗 Ready to See Your Spend Clearly?
We're helping cloud-first teams across industries make better decisions - fast. You bring the cloud bills. We'll bring the visibility.

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