AWS Cloud Financial Management: Key 2025 re:Invent Launches to Transform Your FinOps Practices

Another year has flown by. As we wrap up another exciting AWS re:Invent, I’m excited to share the latest enhancements in AWS Cloud Financial Management (CFM) space. This year’s announcements reflect our commitment to providing comprehensive solutions across the four CFM pillars: track and allocate, govern and operate, forecast and plan, and optimize and save. We’ve also made significant improvements in AI for CFM, which impacts all four CFM pillars.

I. Track and Allocate

New feature #1: Multi-Source Billing View

Flexible data access is one of the most requested features. AWS Billing View, launched at 2024 re:Invent, enables you to scope and securely share exact cost and usage data access level with your stakeholders, either within or outside your organization. Now, with the multi-source billing view, you can aggregate shared billing views from up to 20 different payer accounts in a unified view within the AWS Billing and Cost Management Console. This native AWS solution eliminates the need for custom data pipelines, providing operational efficiency for enterprises with multiple AWS organizations, or solution providers overseeing multiple customer accounts. Read more: Introducing multi-source custom billing views: unified cost management across multiple organizations on AWS

New feature #2: Billing and Cost Management Dashboards

Creating executive-friendly cost visualizations is now easier with AWS Billing and Cost Management Dashboards. This customizable solution allows you to build dashboards that contain all the KPIs your organization wants to track with up to 20 widgets. You can choose from pre-defined widgets, such as monthly cost per account, monthly cost per service, and custom widgets, such as specific cost or usage datasets, tailored to your needs. You can share these dashboards securely with any account either within or outside your organization. Recipients will see the dashboard layout and widget configurations as you defined them, with data visibility based on their data access permission. Read more: Streamline AWS cost analytics with new customized Billing and Cost Management Dashboards

New feature #3: Data Exports for FOCUS 1.2

AWS is committed to simplifying the data analysis process for those operating in multi-cloud or multi-source environments. We’ve enhanced our Data Exports to support the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) 1.2 standard. New fields include capacity reservation information (ID and status), invoice IDs for reconciliation, and virtual currency support for SaaS providers. These enhancements help optimize committed purchases, simplify invoice reconciliation, and enable more effective multi-source cost and usage data management. Read more: Data Exports for FOCUS 1.2 is now generally available

New feature #4: Split Cost Allocation Data with support for Kubernetes Labels

You now have more ways to granularly allocate shared Amazon EC2 costs for container applications at specific business entity levels, such as, projects or cost centers. You can import native Kubernetes labels as user-defined Cost Allocation Tags in AWS Billing and Cost Management, enabling granular cost attribution for EKS workloads down to the application level with Split Cost Allocation Data. This feature helps implement showback or chargeback models in shared EKS clusters and helps teams take accountability for their containerized application costs. Read more: Using Kubernetes Labels to Split and Track Application Costs on Amazon EKS

II. Govern & Operate

New feature #5: Cost Anomaly Detection with Extended Dimensional Monitoring

We’ve significantly enhanced Cost Anomaly Detection with AWS Managed Monitors that can track all values in a dimension with a single monitor. Set up dimensional monitoring once for all member accounts in your organization, a specific Cost Category, or a specific Cost Allocation Tag key, and new resources will be automatically included as your organization grows. This proactive approach ensures you catch anomalies before they impact your budget. Read more: Extending AWS managed monitors in AWS Cost Anomaly Detection

New feature #6: Billing Transfer

Our new Billing Transfer capability allows one payer account to centrally manage billing, payments, and cost management for multiple organizations, decoupling billing management from other organizational controls. This feature is ideal for enterprises with multiple organizations, distributors and resellers, and M&A scenarios. With the integration with AWS Billing Conductor, you can configure different pricing plans per organization to protect your proprietary discount terms. Read more: New: AWS Billing Transfer for centrally managing AWS billing and costs across multiple organizations

New feature #7: E-Invoice Delivery

For organizations using procurement portals like SAP Ariba and Coupa, we’ve streamlined the invoice process with automatic PO retrieval and same-day delivery of invoices with matched PO information. This eliminates manual PO entry, reduces support costs, and speeds up payment cycles—all at no additional cost. Read more: Introducing E-Invoice delivery for AWS customers using SAP Ariba and Coupa

III. Plan & Evaluate

New feature #8: Enhanced ML-Powered Cost Forecasting

Our ML-powered forecast now extends to 18 months (up from 12) and can analyze up to 36 months of historical data (once you opt in, up from 6 months). This longer forecast period enables complete annual planning cycles, while the deeper historical analysis captures seasonal patterns. We’ve also added AI explanations (in public preview) that provide insights into historical data sources, probability ranges, top cost drivers, and confidence levels. Read more: Introducing 18-Month Forecasting and Explainable AI Insights in AWS Cost Explorer

IV. Optimize & Save

New feature #9: Compute Optimizer Automation

Turn recommendations into automatic savings with Compute Optimizer Automation. This feature allows you to automatically implement recommendations for Amazon EBS volumes—including snapshotting, deleting unattached volumes, and upgrading to newer generations. You can schedule these optimizations on a one-off or recurring basis, apply rules to multiple recommendations at once, and track the status and estimated savings of your automation. Read more: Introducing Automated Amazon EBS Volume Optimization in AWS Compute Optimizer

New feature #10: NAT Gateway Idle Detection

This feature helps identify unused NAT gateway resources, distinguishing between truly idle Nat Gateways and those serving disaster recovery and backup purposes. You can achieve cost savings while ensuring operational excellence. Read more: Announcing Unused NAT Gateway Recommendations in AWS Compute Optimizer

New feature #11: Cost Efficiency Score

Measuring optimization effectiveness is now simpler with the new AWS Cost Efficiency Score—a single metric that represents potential savings over addressable spend. This comprehensive score incorporates commitments, rightsizing, idle resources, and migration opportunities, making it a consistent target and benchmark for executive reporting and team performance tracking over time. Read more: Measuring Cloud Cost Efficiency with the New Cost efficiency metric by AWS

New feature #12: RI and Savings Plans Sharing Preferences

Take control of how your commitment-based discounts are shared with three flexible options: share with everyone (default), prioritized group sharing, or restricted sharing. This granular control helps you make tradeoff between maximum savings and custom cost attribution for chargeback models, business unit isolation, or compliance requirements. Read more: Control Your AWS Commitments with Reserved Instances and Savings Plans Group Sharing

New feature #13: Database Savings Plans

This may be the most sought-after CFM launch of the year! The new Database Savings Plans offer up to 35% savings on database costs with no upfront payment and 1-year commitment, providing flexibility across multiple database services and regions. The Database Savings Plans cover nine database services and are applicable to both serverless and provisioned deployments. They specifically apply to Generation 7 and newer instances powered by Intel and AWS Graviton processors. This means you can switch from one eligible database service to another, migrate your database workload from one region to another region, and modernize specific database instances, all covered by the Database Savings Plans. Read more: Introducing Database Savings Plans for AWS Databases

V. AI for CFM

AI for CFM is no longer hype. We’ve incorporated your feedback and made several enhancements to AWS’ AI solution for CFM.

New feature #14: Billing and Cost Management MCP Server

The Billing and Cost Management MCP Server allows you to directly access AWS cost analysis, estimation, and optimization capabilities right in your development environment, such as, Kiro IDE (AWS’ integrated development environment), or CLI.  It enables developers to make cost-aware decisions during the development process by running complex cost queries using natural language without needing to switch to a specific console. Read more: AWS Announces Billing and Cost Management MCP Server

New feature #15: Enhanced Cost Management Capabilities in Amazon Q Developer

You can now retrieve granular cost and usage data, perform custom calculations, investigate cost anomalies, estimate costs for workloads, and analyze cost optimization recommendations. The enhanced cost management capabilities in Amazon Q Developer now allows you to accomplish most FinOps use cases through natural language conversations. Read more: Managing your costs using generative AI with Amazon Q Developer

Getting Started

All features mentioned in this post are ready for you to use today. To learn more about these capabilities and how they can enhance your FinOps practice, visit the AWS Billing and Cost Management console, website, documentations, or contact your AWS account team.

As cloud financial management continues to evolve as a critical discipline, these new capabilities will help you gain better visibility, improve control, enhance planning, and optimize your AWS spending. We’re excited to see how you leverage these tools to drive greater business value from your cloud investments.

Next up:

We’ll share a recap blog post of re:Invent releases from other product teams that can provide cost saving opportunities to you.