AWS Cloud Financial Management
Category: AWS Cost Explorer
Starting your Cloud Financial Management journey: Cost visibility
As your company starts to innovate faster, develop new solutions, and take advantage of the flexible model of the cloud, you need to ensure your CFM setup can handle it all. To help you get started, this blog series is going to take you through each of the four AWS CFM principles: See, Save, Plan, and Run. We’ll give you practical recommendations you can implement to set your business up for success.
AWS Cloud Financial Management 2022 Q4 recap
Hope you all had a memorable holiday and are ready to kickstart your Cloud Financial Management (CFM) effort for 2023. We were busy in Q4 last year and want to make sure you don’t miss anything. If you just started following our blog channel, we’ve provided reference links in this blog so you have the […]
AWS Cost Explorer’s New Look and Common Use Cases
Update: By April 19, 2023, you will no longer be able to roll back to the old Cost Explorer UI. Feel free to submit feedback in the console. We’ll continue improving the experience. The following blog was published on Nov.8, summarizing the Cost Explorer UI changes made in October this year. We’ve since incorporated your […]
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 […]
Using the right tools for your cloud cost forecasting
We’re at the final blog of our forecasting series! If you’ve been following along the past few weeks, you have explored creating a process for more effective forecasting, establishing a forecasting culture, and building driver-based forecasting. It is now time to put pen to paper and create your forecast. But where do you start? How […]
How can I get insights into my portfolio with AWS Cost Explorer?
Dive into the functional capabilities of AWS Cost Explorer to identify specific opportunities for cost savings. We’ll run through live demos to equip you with the knowledge you need to replicate these findings in your own portfolio.
AWS Cloud Financial Management 2022 Q3 recap
It was a busy quarter for AWS Cloud Financial Management team. The tooling side of the organization has been delivering several new product features, including AWS Budgets, AWS Cost Anomaly Detection, AWS Cost Categories, AWS Billing Conductor, and AWS Compute Optimizer.
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 […]
Choosing the AWS pricing strategy that fits your business
AWS pricing strategies offer you the flexibility to choose the most effective way to manage your costs and still keep the performance and capacity you require. Learn about Savings Plans and Reserved Instances and how you can decide what is right for your business.
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.