AWS Cloud Financial Management
Category: Thought Leadership
ICYMI: Forecasting, estimating, tracking, and optimizing cloud spend
This month, we’ve curated AWS resources to help you better implement cost planning, get quicker estimates for your EC2 instances, deploy a unit metrics dashboard, and learn from both our research and customers about the benefits of establishing and maturing your CFM programs.
Using AWS tools to implement your Cloud Financial Management strategy
To operationalize your CFM strategy, you need to identify what tools are available to help you allocate, visualize, and control your AWS cost and usage. In this blog, we’ll share our latest CFM Talk session, where we walk you through an example optimization (using AWS Graviton) to shed light on the framework for how you should think about each CFM pillar and layer tooling into your strategy.
Discover the benefits of Cloud Financial Management beyond cost savings
AWS partnered with 451 Research to better understand the impact of Cloud Financial Management best practices on Cloud Cost, Business Value, and Sustainability. Explore the survey findings to learn how Cloud Financial Management benefits go beyond cost savings.
Starting your Cloud Financial Management journey: Cloud cost operations
In the final blog of our 4-part Starting your Cloud Financial Management journey series, we’ll look at how CFM fits into the structure of your business via processes, polices, and people that are key in your cloud journey.
Starting your Cloud Financial Management journey: Cost planning
In the 3rd part of our 4-part Starting your Cloud Financial Management Journey series, we’ll cover the things you should consider and the tools you can use to forecast and plan for your existing or net-new workloads.
Empower your engineers to take an active role in cost optimization
A vital element of proactive cost optimization is empowering engineering teams, since they are owners of the AWS resources and services deployed. Let’s explore the ways you can help your engineering teams mature independently to take a more proactive role in cost optimization.
5 steps to establishing proactive cloud cost optimization
Cloud cost optimization is often implemented as a reactive activity, despite being intrinsically proactive by nature. By implementing these 5 cloud cost optimization best practices, you can ensure proactivity as you maximize realized business value and take advantage of the flexibility, agility, and scalability of cloud technologies and services.
Starting your Cloud Financial Management journey: Cost savings
In this blog, we’ll share tools you can setup, pricing models you can take advantage of, and services you can use that will help you identify cost optimization opportunities in your workloads.
Starting your Cloud Financial Management journey: Cost visibility
As your company starts to innovate faster, develop new solutions, and take advantage of the flexible model of the cloud, you need to ensure your CFM setup can handle it all. To help you get started, this blog series is going to take you through each of the four AWS CFM principles: See, Save, Plan, and Run. We’ll give you practical recommendations you can implement to set your business up for success.
2022 CFM Peer Connect recap: What are customers doing to allocate shared costs?
The Cloud Financial Management (CFM) Peer Connect is a peer-focused interactive virtual event, providing AWS customers an environment to have an unbiased, open exchange of ideas and best practices relating to transforming your business with cost transparency, control, forecasting, and optimization. We share the top three ways customer have told us they allocate shared costs.