AWS Cloud Financial Management

Today, AWS announces the public preview of AWS FinOps Agent, an agentic AI solution that investigates cost anomalies to root cause and answers cost questions for engineers across your organization, in the tools they already use. FinOps, short for financial operations, brings finance, engineering, and business teams together to maximize the business value of cloud […]

Today, we are introducing AI-powered cost investigation, a new capability in AWS Cost Anomaly Detection (CAD) and the AWS FinOps Agent. When a cost anomaly fires, you can now get a plain-language root cause analysis in minutes and continue the investigation conversationally to drill into specific resources or identities, compare to past anomalies, or set the direction of […]

In this post, we are introducing the credits detail page in the AWS Billing and Cost Management console with public API and Amazon Q integration, providing customers one place to see and control their credits. Managing AWS credits at scale is hard. As organizations grow on AWS, credits can accumulate from multiple programs. Tracking balances, […]

As your AWS environment grows, some resources keep running after they’re no longer in use. A database from a pilot project that ended, or a WorkSpace for a contractor who left, is easy to miss across hundreds of resources. Today, AWS Compute Optimizer is doubling its idle resource detection coverage with six new services, helping […]

Starting today, you can specify a Savings Plans coverage percentage of your On-Demand spend and receive the hourly commitment needed to achieve that level directly in the Savings Plans Purchase Analyzer in the AWS Billing and Cost Management Console. With Target Coverage, you can model different coverage scenarios, exclude expiring Savings Plans to plan for […]

We’re excited to announce intelligent cost explanations in AWS Cost Explorer, powered by Amazon Q Developer. Click the ‘Analyze with Amazon Q’ button on any cost report to instantly receive detailed explanations covering your spending patterns, cost drivers, and anomalies, along with guidance to discover optimization opportunities through follow-up questions, all based on your exact […]

Since launching the Cost Efficiency metric at re:Invent 2025, we keep hearing from our customers: “How do I compare to my peers?” To answer it, we analyzed optimization patterns across more than 71,000 anonymized, opted-in AWS customers over the most recent quarter. Savings Plans coverage is the foundation of any cost optimization strategy, but it’s just one piece of the puzzle. The data shows our most efficient customers go […]

We’re excited to engage with the FinOps community at FinOps X 2026 in San Diego, June 8-11. If you’re looking to spend quality time with the AWS team, here’s where you can find us: Monday June 8th The AWS Frugal Architect GameDay: Hands-on challenges for applying FinOps principles Bring your laptop and dive into a […]

Your AWS bill reveals more than spend patterns; it can identify security issues. The AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) contains detailed usage data across your AWS Organization, enabling you to find cost optimization opportunities, allocate costs, and uncover potential security risks. In this post you’ll learn how you can use the AWS CUR to identify potential security issues in your environment. We share examples of potential risks, and the markers in the CUR […]

The latest Amazon Q cost capabilities are transforming how FinOps teams navigate cloud spend. By the time a FinOps team flags an expensive configuration, it may already be running in production. The fix can be more disruptive to deploy, the discussions can be more challenging, and the savings are often smaller than they could have been. […]