Tag: Cloud Cost Management

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 […]

Thank you for those who came out and chatted with us about your CFM journey during the last few AWS Summits this year.  Nothing beats a real customer conversation. The experience you shared with us allows us to reflect upon how we can better work together to solve your CFM needs.  I thought it’d be helpful to share some commonly asked questions as a recap.  

After helping organizations from multiple industries and geographies succeed on their cloud adoption journey, we identified a direct correlation between the lack of mechanisms for cost management with behind plan and stalled migrations. In general, when customers are forced to slow down their migration, there is a significant impact on their expected return of investment […]

“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world” – Archimedes. 451 Research’s recent whitepaper “Cloud Financial Management, Small Changes Can Make Big Impacts” (April 2020) highlights how organizations who are able to embrace the CFM lever correctly are able to accelerate both top […]

In this blog post, we will show you a detailed example of how to calculate the cost of your application in different regions.

by Deirdre Corley (Senior Product Manager – Amazon EFS) and Matthew Cowsert (Senior Product Manager – AWS Cost Management)   Introduction Since Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) launched in mid-2016, AWS customers have been taking advantage of the low-cost, cloud-native, fully managed NFS file system for Linux-based workloads. Recently we’ve been hearing from EFS customers […]

Managing your AWS costs and usage doesn’t have to be difficult. The AWS Billing Console is your one-stop-shop for accessing your billing, payments, and cost management information and capabilities. During this post, I will cover how you can use the Billing Console as your hub for managing your billing, payments, and cost management workflows. Getting […]

And just like that, the Expo Hall portion of the re:Invent conference is officially closed for 2019! The AWS Cost Management booth staff would like to thank the hundreds of you who took the time to stop by and share anecdotes about your cloud financial management journey with us. We also appreciate your feedback on […]

AWS’s dizzyingly fast launch cadence (across 165+ services) can make it difficult for anyone to stay up to date on recent releases. In that vein, I was recently reading through the AWS Cost Management Release Notes, and I was reminded of a recent feature release that’s a quick win if you want to keep a […]

AWS Budgets gives you the ability to create custom budgets based on your costs, usage, or reservations. You receive alerts when you exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted amount. Using the new AWS Budgets planning features, you can specify variable budget targets for each month or quarter for up to one year in […]