Category: Technical How-to

Monitoring your service costs and usage while scaling on AWS is often cited as a top customer concern. Learn how AWS Budgets can help make sure you don’t exceed your desired usage thresholds and overall budget, and keep your spend and usage in check.

In this post, we’ll show you what tools you can use, and how you can use them to define, implement, and enforce a tagging strategy that improves your organization’s cost awareness using AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Organizations, AWS Tag Editor, and AWS Config.

AWS has launched two new features for creating AWS Cost Categories rules. It has added a new dimension -“Region” to its category rule, and a new dimension operator “OR” to define cost categories rules across dimensions. You can now create cost categories rules with six types of dimensions – “Linked Account”, “Charge Type”, “Service “, […]

It’s well known how important it is to learn about strategies for holistic cloud cost optimization, how AWS has improved its cost-optimization recommendation solutions, and how to use those solutions to map capacity to your needs and make better cost-optimization decisions while maintaining high performance. AWS Compute Optimizer helps you identify the optimal AWS resource […]

In this blog, we will review how to define a chargeback and cost allocation strategy, and then walk you through a reference architecture to build and automate the chargeback process. The example will provide prescriptive guidance to chargeback AWS Transit Gateway costs.

We’re at the final blog of our forecasting series! If you’ve been following along the past few weeks, you have explored creating a process for more effective forecasting, establishing a forecasting culture, and building driver-based forecasting. It is now time to put pen to paper and create your forecast. But where do you start? How […]

Dive into the functional capabilities of AWS Cost Explorer to identify specific opportunities for cost savings. We’ll run through live demos to equip you with the knowledge you need to replicate these findings in your own portfolio.

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.

You want to balance business agility with the right level of cost control to avoid surprises. You want your team to innovate at scale and align efforts with the goals of your business. To help you with centralized billing, payment, cost control, and cost governance, we’ve selected the top 3 resources around cost management and […]

To help you with centralized billing, payment, cost control, and cost governance, we’ve selected the top 3 resources around cost management and control on AWS from last month.