AWS Cloud Financial Management
Introducing Data Exports for AWS Billing and Cost Management
Today, we announced the general availability of Data Exports, a new Billing and Cost Management feature that enables you to create exports of your billing and cost management data using SQL column selections and row filters to select the data you want to receive. Exports are delivered on a recurring basis to an Amazon S3 bucket for use with business intelligence or data analytics solutions.
How to take advantage of Rightsizing recommendation preferences in Compute Optimizer
Rightsizing recommendation preferences allows you to adjust both CPU headroom and thresholds, configure a new 32-day lookback period option, and set instance family preferences at the organization, account, or regional level. With this feature, Compute Optimizer provides greater transparency on how the recommendations are generated and the ability for you to configure EC2 rightsizing recommendations for higher savings and performance sensitivity, aligning recommendations with your business needs. Let’s explore what you can achieve through this new feature.
How Coinbase Built a Cloud Center of Excellence to Optimize their Cloud Costs on AWS
Dr. Adam Link, Engineering Manager, Coinbase Cloud Center of Excellence and Schalk Theron, Director of Engineering, Coinbase Cloud Foundations contributed to this blog. Introduction and Challenges Coinbase is a secure online platform for buying, selling, transferring, and storing cryptocurrency. Their mission is to create an open financial system for the world and to be the […]
AWS Cloud Financial Management 2023 Q3 Launch Recap
Thanks to our product and engineering teams’ tireless efforts in building new capabilities for AWS Cloud Financial Management portfolio, I get to talk about these amazing features. Let’s take a look at what we’ve made available for you in the last quarter.
AWS re:Invent 2023 Know Before You Go: a guide to Cloud Financial Management programs
If you’re planning to attend the AWS re:Invent 2023 and wondering what Cloud Financial Management sessions and activities you should participate, look no further! In this blog post, we’ll take a sneak peek into these programs. Hope it can help you navigate re:Invent like a true CFM pro and learn and meet with like-minded FinOps professionals.
AWS joins the FinOps Foundation as a Premier Member
Customers have always been interested in understanding their cloud costs, and in today’s economic times, cost efficiency is a top priority for most organizations. The demand for cost management competency has resulted in the growth of FinOps teams across every major industry segment. AWS provides AWS Cloud Financial Management (CFM) Services, a set of industry-leading solutions […]
Analyze your custom billing data with AWS Cost Explorer
To provide the ability for end users of our resellers and large organizations to understand and analyze cost at their negotiated rates, we enabled proforma cost support in Cost Explorer.
Measure and track cloud efficiency with sustainability proxy metrics, Part II: Establish a metrics pipeline
This blog post series provides an overview on how to establish a sustainability proxy metrics showback mechanism for teams wanting to optimize their AWS usage for sustainability. In Part I, we’ve covered the motivation for sustainability proxy metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs). We explained the concept of usage based metrics, normalization and inclusion of […]
Establish a cloud financial management “flywheel” to continuously improve cost transparency, control, forecasting, and optimization
Read this blog and learn how you can establish effective cloud financial management (CFM) practices to continuously improve cost transparency, control, forecasting, and optimization.
Measure and track cloud efficiency with sustainability proxy metrics, Part I: What are proxy metrics?
Sustainability has become an important decision-making factor for customers, employees, regulators, investors, and partners. Customers have started their journey towards a sustainable business and operations. If you’re building, deploying, and maintaining IT infrastructure, reducing its environmental impact is an important step in reaching company-wide sustainability goals. Thus, sustainability has become a non-functional requirement in modern […]