Category: Best Practices

In the 3rd part of our 4-part Starting your Cloud Financial Management Journey series, we’ll cover the things you should consider and the tools you can use to forecast and plan for your existing or net-new workloads.

A vital element of proactive cost optimization is empowering engineering teams, since they are owners of the AWS resources and services deployed. Let’s explore the ways you can help your engineering teams mature independently to take a more proactive role in cost optimization.

Cloud cost optimization is often implemented as a reactive activity, despite being intrinsically proactive by nature. By implementing these 5 cloud cost optimization best practices, you can ensure proactivity as you maximize realized business value and take advantage of the flexibility, agility, and scalability of cloud technologies and services.

In this blog, we’ll share tools you can setup, pricing models you can take advantage of, and services you can use that will help you identify cost optimization opportunities in your workloads.

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.

Learn how you can optimize your current AWS footprint with little to no architectural changes. Focus on improving price-to-performance without introducing engineering overhead, large planning cycles, and significant time investment.

All week long, our Cloud Financial Management experts have been speaking with customers and CFM practitioners from around the globe at re:Invent 2022. A few questions, time and again, have emerged as trending topics, so we’re answering them here, direct from the CFM kiosk.

Now, with the KPI Dashboard, customers can track cost optimization across their organization and visualize realized savings. In this blog, we’ll walk through the various ways you can use the data in your KPI dashboard.

Learn about Singular’s AWS Graviton adoption process including their mental model, project execution, and measurement of success, resulting in an improved price-to-performance ratio by 35%.

Learn how to build some of the most common driver-based forecasts. Driver-based forecasting can help businesses make more accurate predictions about future spend, allowing you to better understand how driver changes may impact your overall forecast.