Category: AWS Well-Architected

AWS Cloud Financial Management Technical Implementation Playbooks (CFM TIPs) – The complete playbook for implementing and improving effective Cloud Financial Management capabilities in your organization. Utilizing the Cloud Financial Management framework and the Cost Optimization pillar in the AWS Well-Architected Framework, we have built an accessible step-by-step playbook to help you to implement a specific set of capabilities in your organization. This results in mechanisms that ensure ongoing, self-sufficient cost optimization and governance.

In some cases, users can be hindered with access to all available cost data for an organization. With Row Level Security (RLS), you can restrict the data a user can see to a subset of the business most relevant to them. In this blog, we’re going to walk you through how Telenor implemented RLS on its Multi-Payer Cost Dashboards, and how you can, too.

In this blog, we’ll explore how you can establish a cost forecasting culture to facilitate more productive conversations, a sense of ownership among all parties, and ultimately increase overall cloud business value.

How can you make your data work for you and your specific business needs? We asked three AWS CFM experts to share their advice on how you can get started.

In this blog post, we’ll cover the elements of a good metrics strategy and how you can create one, and we’ll share some KPI examples to help you get started.

Do you want to transform your business with cost transparency, control, forecasting, and optimization, but don’t know where to start? You’re not alone. Here are our answers to the top 3 customer questions and the top 3 key takeaways to help you start transforming your business by managing and optimizing your spend.

Voiced by Amazon Polly As your business grows on AWS, so too does the need for cost and usage visibility and custom cost reporting tailored for your organization. Good Cloud Financial Management (CFM) targets for your AWS usage can include (but are not limited to) Reserved Instance and Savings Plans coverage, average hourly cost of […]

Voiced by Amazon Polly   Organized, meaningful cost and usage data helps make informed decisions for your cloud investment. AWS provides various resources and tools to help you organize resources and accounts, such as AWS Cost Categories, AWS Control Tower, and AWS Organizations. AWS Organizations is a great service to centrally manage and govern your […]

We recently released an updated version of the Cost Optimization pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework with a heavy focus on Cloud Financial Management. Since releasing the AWS Well-Architected Tool at re:Invent 2018, we’ve continued to work with customers, partners, and other AWS subject matter experts to understand how we can improve the tool and […]