AWS Cloud Financial Management
Author: Bhavin Lakhani
Bhavin Lakhani is a Senior Technical Account Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS), specializing in Cloud Financials, Analytics, Databases, Application, and Infrastructure Management. Bhavin holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Mumbai and an Enterprise Architecture degree from Penn State University. In his previous roles, Bhavin has managed Infrastructure and Application engineering teams across various Cloud, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Product Development, Database, and application upgrade projects. He is passionate about Cloud Economics and Enterprise Architecture and uses his expertise in these areas to help AWS users optimize their spending and architecture.
Create your own granular cost dimension using AWS Cost Categories and Amazon Athena
In this blog, we’ll walk you through an example of setting up a multilevel hierarchy in Cost Categories. We’ll use Amazon Athena to consolidate cost and usage data across all AWS services, accounts, tags, cost categories, and other fields from the AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR).