AWS Cloud Financial Management
Author: Luis Abud
Luis oversees the Digital Experience for AWS Billing and Cost Management services. He focuses on enabling finance and business leaders to transform their business with cost transparency, control, forecasting, and optimization. In his previous career, he helped tech and retail companies establish and enhance their digital presence in Latin America.
How can I use AWS Budgets to track my spending and usage?
Monitoring your service costs and usage while scaling on AWS is often cited as a top customer concern. Learn how AWS Budgets can help make sure you don’t exceed your desired usage thresholds and overall budget, and keep your spend and usage in check.
Optimizing resource efficiency with AWS Compute Optimizer
It’s well known how important it is to learn about strategies for holistic cloud cost optimization, how AWS has improved its cost-optimization recommendation solutions, and how to use those solutions to map capacity to your needs and make better cost-optimization decisions while maintaining high performance. AWS Compute Optimizer helps you identify the optimal AWS resource […]
AWS re:Invent 2022 CEO Keynote through the Cloud Financial Management lens
How should we look at Cloud Financial Management in these uncertain economic times? In his re:Invent 2022 keynote speech, AWS CEO Adam Selipsky opened with the idea that in times of uncertainty, it’s tempting to cut back and slow down. He counters, however, that when it comes to the cloud, customers should be leaning in […]
ICYMI: Defining account strategy, achieving consistent cost tracking, and getting even more Well-Architected
In order to take advantage of the cloud’s agility, scalability, and speed-to-innovation, it’s essential to establish cost visibility and accountability. Transparent and accurate cost attribution helps you: Reduce waste and increase cost efficiency Measure ROI and align spend with business objectives, and Provide meaningful and actionable cost insights to help make more informed decisions about […]
Easily save money on your compute spend with Savings Plans
Savings Plans is a flexible pricing model offering lower prices compared to On-Demand pricing, in exchange for a specific usage commitment (measured in $/hour) for a one or three-year period. AWS offers three types of Savings Plans – Compute Savings Plans, EC2 Instance Savings Plans, and Amazon SageMaker Savings Plans. Compute Savings Plans apply to […]
ICYMI: Become a data-driven organization, track AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery costs, and manage cloud costs for your business
We’ve selected the top 3 resources from last month to help you organize and report cost and usage based on user-defined methods
ICYMI: UI Improvements in AWS Budgets, Medibank case study, and preventing unexpected costs
You want to balance business agility with the right level of cost control to avoid surprises. You want your team to innovate at scale and align efforts with the goals of your business. To help you with centralized billing, payment, cost control, and cost governance, we’ve selected the top 3 resources around cost management and […]
Estimate the cost for your architecture solution with AWS Pricing Calculator
Learn how AWS Pricing Calculator can combine AWS multiple services into a cost estimation based on your predicted use patterns. Get started today to find cost effective ways to maximize cloud usage and efficiency that fits your business needs.
ICYMI: Re-architect for cost optimization, automate optimization, and cost saving opportunities during migrations
To help you with centralized billing, payment, cost control, and cost governance, we’ve selected the top 3 resources around cost management and control on AWS from last month.
Achieve cost transparency and accountability with AWS Cost Categories
AWS Cost Categories allows you to categorize your cost and usage information precisely to your organizational structure and cost allocation needs such as teams, cost centers, geography, applications, and more. Learn more!