Systems and methods for providing cloud computing semantic layer operations

A method for providing a cloud computing semantic layer operation, comprising:

• receiving, by a computing system that implements a semantic layer, a description of a semantic layer operation, the description specifying performance of the semantic layer operation by the semantic layer using a first cloud operation performed on a first cloud computing platform;
• receiving, by the computing system from a cloud provider associated with the first cloud computing platform, a first resource usage indication corresponding to the first cloud operation, wherein the resource usage indication comprises a direct or indirect indication of least one of a storage amount, a compute amount, a number of transactions, a bandwidth, a number of application programming interface calls, or an application or database type associated with the first cloud operation;
• receiving, by the computing system from a client interacting with the semantic layer, a request that indicates performance of the semantic layer operation;
• providing, to the client, an estimated resource usage indication based on the request and the received first resource usage indication;
• receiving, from the client in response to provision of the estimated resource usage indication, confirmation of the request;
• and
• communicating, by the computing system, with the cloud provider to perform the semantic layer operation in accordance with the request.

A non-transitory computer readable medium containing instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of a system, cause the system to perform operations comprising:

• receiving a description of a semantic layer operation, the description specifying performance of the semantic layer operation by a semantic layer using a first cloud operation performed on a first cloud computing platform;
• receiving, from a cloud provider associated with the first cloud computing platform, a first resource usage indication corresponding to the first cloud operation, wherein the first resource usage indication comprises a direct or indirect indication of least one of a storage amount, a compute amount, a number of transactions, a bandwidth, a number of application programming interface calls, or an application or database type associated with the first cloud operation;
• receiving, from a client interacting with the semantic layer, a request that indicates performance of the semantic layer operation;
• providing, to the client, an estimated resource usage indication based on the request and the received first resource usage indication;
• receiving, from the client in response to provision of the estimated resource usage indication, confirmation of the request;
• and
• communicating with the cloud provider to perform the semantic layer operation in accordance with the request.