Category: AWS Cost and Usage Report

In this post, we go over the enhancements to the SPG dashboard. The enhancements enable buyers to centralize their procurement governance from tracking spend information to obtaining the necessary insights from their AWS Marketplace agreements. The enhancements include insights from AWS Marketplace agreements such as Deployed on AWS status for subscribed products, contracting currency, and charge schedules.

In this post, we go over the enhancement to the SPG dashboard. You can use the dashboard to visualize the deployment, grants, and terms of licenses associated with your AWS Marketplace software subscriptions. In some situations, IT or engineering teams may restrict business stakeholders, without required AWS training, from accessing the live production environments through AWS consoles. In these situations, you can view this business intelligence (BI) dashboard in read-only mode and obtain the desired visibility into your AWS Marketplace activity.

In this post, Yuriy and I show how to use the changes to the CUDOS Dashboard in Amazon QuickSight to analyze your AWS Marketplace costs, gain insights, and spot trends.

Starting November 2019, Amazon Machine Images (AMI) deployed on AWS Marketplace will inherit tags from their corresponding Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. This update provides greater spend management visibility into your AWS Marketplace software costs. Additionally, it will not impact your billing process or invoiced amount. You can use tags to categorize, allocate, […]