AWS Cloud Financial Management
Author: Rick Ochs
Rick Ochs leads the product team at AWS focused on Optimization products, including Compute Optimizer and RI/SP purchase recommendations. Previous to joining AWS, Rick led the cloud product team at Turbonomic focused on optimization.
Announcing Savings Plans Purchase Analyzer
Starting today, you can easily model your next Savings Plans purchases and evaluate the impact on cost, coverage, and utilization in the AWS Billing and Cost Management Console. You can input your own commitment amount or generate a recommended commitment that is designed to maximize your cost savings. Furthermore, you can customize your analysis by selecting a specific lookback period and/or excluding expiring Savings Plans to plan for upcoming renewals.
Announcing Idle Recommendations in AWS Compute Optimizer
Starting today, AWS Compute Optimizer will give recommendations to clean up idle resources. AWS Compute Optimizer historically has been focused on providing rightsizing recommendations to save cost and improve performance. To help you drive further cost savings, we are expanding the focus to now include detecting and recommending cleanup of idle recommendations. With this launch, you will get recommendations for idle EBS volumes, ECS tasks on running on Fargate, EC2 instances, EC2 Auto Scaling groups, and RDS instances.