Tag: Plan and Evaluate

Here’s a sneak peek of the ways you can engage with the AWS Cloud Financial Management (CFM) team. Hope you find this cheat sheet helpful as you build your re:Invent catalog.  We’ll keep updating this blog as it approaches re:Invent to make sure we include all CFM activities, so you don’t miss out.

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.

Learn how AWS Pricing Calculator can combine AWS multiple services into a cost estimation based on your predicted use patterns. Get started today to find cost effective ways to maximize cloud usage and efficiency that fits your business needs.

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 […]

Cloud Financial Management (CFM) is a fundamental part of every customer’s cloud journey. Whether you are building applications natively in the cloud, migrating your workloads to the cloud, or expanding your adoption of cloud services, CFM can help you achieve the full business value associated with cloud adoption.

When helping customers build TCO models for their cloud migration, we often come across customer analysts who say their financial models show that moving to the cloud is more expensive than staying on premises. What we’ve found is that customers often exclude key inputs that lead to inaccurate cost comparison models.

Take a look at what AWS Cloud Financial Management team delivered in Q1, such as AWS Billing Conductor, Carbon Footprint Tool, Auto-adjusting budgets, etc. and see how these new capabilities can help solve your immediate and long-term financial needs.

Do you want to transform your business with cost transparency, control, forecasting, and optimization, but don’t know where to start? You’re not alone. Here are our answers to the top 3 customer questions and the top 3 key takeaways to help you start transforming your business by managing and optimizing your spend.