Category: Kiro

In this post, we introduce the Kiro Cost Optimizer, an open-source, serverless solution that gives you per-developer visibility into Kiro Enterprise credit usage. It ingests Kiro’s daily per-user activity reports, accumulates month-to-date usage per developer, and delivers a consolidated usage visibility report with tier optimization recommendations via email on a schedule you control. The entire stack deploys in minutes with a single AWS CloudFormation template, costs less than a few dollars a year to operate, and requires zero ongoing maintenance.

Tokens are the currency models work in. Every model takes tokens as input and produces tokens as output, and those tokens can come from anywhere: a person typing a prompt, an application making a call, or another AI agent talking to your model through an MCP server. In this blog, we focus on the tokens generated by AI coding tools and AI solutions. If you’re a FinOps practitioner trying to get ahead of AI spend, you need a framework to work from. That’s what this blog is for. We’re going to use the AWS Cloud Financial Management (CFM) pillars you may already know, See, Save, Run, and Plan, but with a tokenomics lens. They will be Visibility & Attribution, Optimization, Governance, and Value/ROI. We have created a landing page going deeper into these subjects on the Tokenomics CFM Tips page.

​​​FinOps practitioners now have access to a growing lineup of AI tools, but matching the right tool to each use case is the difference between accelerating your practice and adding unnecessary complexity. AWS designed each tool in the AI lineup for different context and a different type of work. ​​In this blog we are going to go […]