AWS Cloud Financial Management
Category: Technical How-to
ICYMI: Re-architect for cost optimization, automate optimization, and cost saving opportunities during migrations
Organizations are adding expenses again while chasing post-pandemic development prospects, but they still need to minimize costs as they face fresh economic challenges including inflation and a lack of inputs. In these circumstances, it’s even more crucial to choose which expenses to cut or safeguard, so you can promote efficiency and development even during inflation. […]
Read MoreBundled Discounts in AWS Cost and Usage Report
Bundled discount is a usage-based discount that has conditional logic associated with usage. Bundled Discount gives customers free or discounted usage in one product/service based on the usage of another product/service.
Read MoreGetting Started with AWS Billing Conductor
Starting today, you can access AWS Billing Conductor (hereinafter referred to as “ABC”), a new service that enables AWS customers and reseller partners to customize billing data and reporting in a way that aligns with your unique business logic.
Read MoreGet AWS Cost Anomaly Detection alert notifications in Slack through AWS Chatbot
Get near real-time visibility into anomalous spend by receiving AWS Cost Anomaly Detection alert notifications in Slack using AWS Chatbot. With faster visibility and insights you can reduce cost surprises, enhance control, and proactively increase savings. AWS Cost Anomaly Detection uses advanced Machine Learning to help identify and evaluate the root cause of spend anomalies. […]
Read MoreUpgrade Amazon OpenSearch Service Domains to the Latest Instance Types to Optimize Your Costs
In this blog, we will share the benefits to upgrade your Amazon OpenSearch Service instances to the latest generations, how you can identify the instances of older generations and configure your Amazon OpenSearch Service domain changes to upgrade the instance types, and how you can receive recommendations and purchase your Amazon OpenSearch Service Reserved Instances.
Read MoreVisualizing Your Eligible On-Demand Compute Expense for AWS Savings Plan
Voiced by Amazon Polly One of the most common questions we get from customers is how to manage compute costs for resources like Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, and AWS Fargate. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has many offerings to help you optimize spending, one of which is AWS Savings Plans. You can receive up to 72% […]
Read MoreTrends Dashboard with AWS Cost and Usage Reports, Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight
AWS cloud usage data is a critical component in the IT Financial Management process for AWS customers. As organizations grow in cloud maturity, the cloud usage data may become complex as usage incurs from distributed teams and businesses. Financial and Technology leaders need access to trends, signals, insights, and cost deviations to quickly understand and analyze the cloud usage. The AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR) provide comprehensive data about your AWS costs, including information related to product, pricing, and usage. By including the Resource IDs and choosing hourly time granularity, CUR allows you to analyze your costs in greater detail and accuracy. You can download the CUR reports from the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) console, query the reports using Amazon Athena or load the reports into Amazon Redshift or visualize in Amazon QuickSight.
Read MoreIntroducing AWS Application Cost Profiler, offering user-based cost data of shared AWS resources
Voiced by Amazon Polly October 6, 2021: This blog post is under construction. Please refer back to this post in a day or two for the most accurate and helpful information. It has become increasingly common for customers to deploy applications that share infrastructure resources for the purpose of cloud cost optimization. As more organizations […]
Read MoreCost Tagging and Reporting with AWS Organizations
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 […]
Read MoreCost Reporting Based on AWS Organizations Account ID Tags
This blog post shares how you can build cost reports based on AWS Organizations Account tags. Learn how you can retrieve your account information, including tags from AWS Organizations, get your cost details from the AWS Cost Explorer API, and store this information in a CSV file in Amazon S3.
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