Tag: Cost Management

The following blog was published on Nov.8, summarizing the Cost Explorer UI changes made in October this year. We’ve since incorporated your feedback in our recent updates and have called out these in the blog below with rationale and instructions. AWS Cost Explorer has recently updated its user interface on October 11, 2022 and from […]

That’s a wrap for Season 4 of the top-rated AWS Twitch show, ‘The Keys to AWS Optimization.’ Hosts Steph Gooch and Alex Head share stories, concepts, and solutions to help you unlock your spend at AWS. Each week they’re joined by a special guest to give you actionable insights and recommendations you can walk away […]

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.  

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.

Voiced by Amazon Polly One of the biggest benefits of the cloud is the ability to scale dynamically and reduce costs by paying for only what you use, when you need it. However, when development teams aren’t prepared for this newfound flexibility, cost shock and unexpected cost spikes can occur. If you are new to […]

One of our focuses this year is to share more customer stories with you. We recently sat down with one of our customers and a valued partner – Duda to reflect upon their Cloud Financial Management (CFM) journey. In this blog post, we will give you a brief overview on how they tackled this important task.

The democratization of cloud technology brings autonomy and agility to end users, who can access and spin up resources quickly.  Builders get to experiment ideas, develop applications, and deploy products globally to meet local customers’ needs.  Organization leaders want to unleash the team’s creativity and accelerate the time-to-market, while keeping the cloud cost within limits. […]

As part of the procure-to-pay process, many AWS customers use Purchase Orders (“POs”) to procure AWS services and approve invoices for payment. Customers have told us that they want to use separate POs for different types of purchases and need the ability to track their PO information to ensure that valid POs are used for their invoices.

We have further enhanced our forecasting algorithm to allow a same day start date so customers can always access and view their historical and predicted costs in their Cost Management console and via Cost Explorer API without any gaps. Prior to this change, the current date was an invalid start date for calls to GetCostForecast […]

We are pleased to announce the AWS Cost Management suite of products is now available in AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD, and in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet.  The services and features include AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR), Reserved Instances Recommendation and Reporting, and EC2 […]