AWS Cloud Financial Management

Category: Best Practices

How to improve your cloud cost forecasting

It’s that time of year again, when companies are starting their 2023 planning. Since technology usage is often an organization’s highest expenditure after personnel costs, effectively forecasting cloud spend is vital to planning, negotiating, and achieving sustainable economies of scale as you grow and mature your business on the cloud. So, what can you can […]

ICYMI: Cloud-based data storage, driving innovation, and sustainability reporting journeys

When we talk about the Plan and Evaluate use case in the context of Cloud Financial Management, we refer to several use cases that all contribute to understanding and evaluating the economic performance of your IT investment, in alignment with your specific business priorities. We focus on the tools, resources, and best practices you can use […]

ICYMI: Drive cost efficiency, learn how Salesforce innovated and saved, and optimize cost savings

By continually cost optimizing, you can maximize the value of the cloud for your business. You can build modern, scalable applications that maintain the performance and capacity you require, while avoiding any over spending associated with over provisioned or idle resources. There are a variety of ways you can take control of your cloud spend […]

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 […]

ICYMI: Manage and control your Amazon S3 storage costs, cloud architecture patterns, and resource configuration changes

Check out this month’s top 3 resources to help you manage billing and control your costs, including how to manage storage costs, and increasing control and visibility over your cloud architecture patterns and resource configurations.

ICYMI: Managing cloud costs, supercharging your financial performance, and getting started with CFM

Do you know how to accurately plan and evaluate your cloud costs to meet business objectives without sacrificing the ability to innovate and scale? To help answer this frequently asked question, we’re sharing this month’s top 3 AWS resources related to planning and evaluating your IT spend.