Category: Announcements

Today, we’re excited to announce the extension of AWS managed monitors in AWS Cost Anomaly Detection to support linked accounts, cost allocation tags, and cost categories. Previously available only for AWS services, AWS managed monitors now enable you to track costs across all your organizational dimensions with minimal ongoing maintenance. As organizations scale from tens to hundreds of accounts and teams, you can create a single AWS managed monitor that automatically adapts as your organization grows, eliminating the need to maintain hundreds of individual customer managed monitors. After initial setup, this feature transforms cost monitoring from a time-consuming operational task into an automated process that ensures comprehensive anomaly detection coverage while enabling clear segmentation of spending alerts by cost ownership.

As organizations continue to scale their cloud infrastructure, many organizations struggle to answer fundamental questions: How efficient are we being with our cloud spend? Which business units are most cost efficient? How do we demonstrate ROI on optimization efforts to leadership? Today, we’re excited to introduce Cost efficiency in Cost Optimization Hub—a comprehensive, automatically generated measure of cloud spend efficiency that helps you track optimization progress over time and drive meaningful cost savings across your organization.

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of AWS E-Invoice delivery, a new capability that enables you to integrate your Ariba and Coupa procurement portals with AWS. AWS E-Invoice delivery retrieves purchase orders (PO) from your Ariba and Coupa portals and delivers invoices associated with your desired POs. This new feature eliminates two manual tasks: creating POs in the AWS Billing and Cost Management console and uploading invoices to your procurement portals.

Your Reserved Instances and Savings Plans are designed to give you the most optimal discount rates by prioritizing the benefits to accounts in the organizations. However, you might have faced a challenge when you’re managing AWS costs across multiple business units: your Reserved Instances and Savings Plans don’t always benefit the teams that purchased them. As a result, it requires manual chargeback work to track ROI, maintain internal accountability, and align spending with your business structure. Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of Reserved Instances and Savings Plans (RISP) Group Sharing – a new feature that gives customers an option to have granular control over how your AWS commitments are shared across your organization.

We’re excited to announce enhanced forecasting capabilities in AWS Cost Explorer, now providing up to 18 months of future cost projections with improved accuracy and AI-powered explanations (preview). This extended forecast horizon addresses the need for long-term financial planning that aligns with enterprise fiscal cycles, while providing transparency into the drivers behind your cost forecasts.

Today AWS announced Cost and Usage data exports in FOCUS 1.2 specification. You can now create exports of your AWS Cost and Usage data in the FOCUS 1.2 schema. FOCUS (FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification), supported by the FinOps Foundation, is an open specification that standardizes Cost and Usage data to simplify cloud financial […]

AWS is committed to empowering the FinOps community with the knowledge, tools, and best practices needed to excel in cloud financial management. Our dedication to the FinOps community goes beyond providing world-class cloud services—we’re invested in your professional growth and success. Through our comprehensive digital training portfolio, we aim to equip FinOps professionals with the expertise needed to drive meaningful cost optimization, establish effective governance frameworks, and demonstrate clear business value from cloud investments. Today, we’re excited to share updates to our Cloud Financial Management training courses and introduce a specialized new course designed specifically for the growing demands of generative AI cost management.

We are excited to introduce split cost allocation support for accelerated workloads in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). This enhancement to Split Cost Allocation Data for EKS enables customers to track container-level resource costs for accelerator-powered workloads. Split Cost Allocation Data now utilizes Trainium, Inferentia, NVIDIA and AMD GPUs, complementing existing CPU and memory cost tracking capabilities. This cost data is available in the AWS Cost and Usage Report (legacy and CUR 2.0), providing organizations with a consolidated view of their cloud expenditures. This feature is now available across all AWS commercial regions (excluding China regions) at no additional cost to customers.

Introduction Unlocking FinOps capabilities for modern cloud teams just got simpler with the introduction of the AWS Billing and Cost Management Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, which makes advanced cost analysis and optimization features directly available to your favorite AI assistant or chatbot. By integrating natural language queries, secure local credentials, and real-time access to […]

Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of Billing and Cost Management Dashboards, a new feature within AWS Billing and Cost Management that allows you to display multiple views of billing and cost data in a single page. With Billing and Cost Management Dashboards, you can create customized views combining data from AWS Cost Explorer and commitment coverage and utilization, helping you discover spending patterns and correlations to make data-driven financial decisions. You can also share your dashboards across accounts, enabling your FinOps teams to establish common cost reporting practices throughout their organization.