Category: AWS Cost and Usage Report

In this post, you learn how to build a FinOps agent using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that helps your finance team manage AWS costs across multiple accounts. This conversational agent consolidates data from AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, and AWS Compute Optimizer into a single interface, so your team can ask questions like “What are my top cost drivers this month?” and receive immediate answers.

In this post, we explore an innovative solution that uses Amazon Bedrock Agents, powered by Amazon Nova Lite, to create a conversational interface for Athena queries. We use AWS Cost and Usage Reports (AWS CUR) as an example, but this solution can be adapted for other databases you query using Athena. This approach democratizes data access while preserving the powerful analytical capabilities of Athena, so you can interact with your data using natural language.

AWS Cost Explorer enables you to view and analyze your AWS Cost and Usage Reports (AWS CUR). You can also predict your overall cost associated with AWS services in the future by creating a forecast of AWS Cost Explorer, but you can’t view historical data beyond 12 months. Moreover, running custom machine learning (ML) models […]