AWS Cloud Financial Management
Author: Zach Erdman
Zach Erdman is a Sr. Product Manager at AWS working on Data Exports for Billing and Cost Management in the Commerce Platform. He is focused on building tools to help data engineers and FinOps specialists be able to more easily ingest, process, and understand their cloud cost and usage data.
Data Exports for FOCUS 1.0 is now in general availability
Today AWS announced the general availability release of Data Exports for FOCUS 1.0. You can now create exports of your AWS cost and usage data with the FOCUS 1.0 schema with significant specification conformance improvements compared to the public preview released in June 2024. FOCUS (FinOps Open Cost and Usage Standard), supported by the FinOps Foundation, is an open-source cloud cost and usage specification that provides standardization to normalize cost and usage data and simplify cloud financial management across multiple sources. With Data Exports for FOCUS 1.0, you can easily aggregate, query, and analyze cost and usage data from various sources.
Introducing Data Exports for AWS Billing and Cost Management
Today, we announced the general availability of Data Exports, a new Billing and Cost Management feature that enables you to create exports of your billing and cost management data using SQL column selections and row filters to select the data you want to receive. Exports are delivered on a recurring basis to an Amazon S3 bucket for use with business intelligence or data analytics solutions.