Category: AWS Cloud Financial Management

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has shared a new set of features that provide comprehensive invoice and PO management for AWS Marketplace purchases. Customers using PO features in AWS Marketplace and the AWS Billing and Cost Management console can receive invoices from AWS that reflect the applicable, customer-defined PO number. This helps streamline payment processing and cost allocation.

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, Ramya and I introduce you to the new SPG dashboard as a single pane of glass for your Marketplace transactions. You can view this dashboard without having AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions or technical proficiency on the underlying AWS services. We show how you can use the SPG dashboard for a simplified view of your AWS Marketplace subscriptions for spend management and usage tracking.

In this blog post, Soumya and I show you how to use the Billing and Cost Management console and AWS Marketplace purchase order features to help ensure your invoices for AWS Marketplace purchases reflect the proper PO. Once you enable the transaction purchase order feature in the AWS Marketplace console, AWS accounts in your AWS organization with permission to subscribe can add specific purchase orders for AWS Marketplace transactions during procurement.

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.

AWS Control Tower enables customers of all sizes to implement a multi-account strategy built on AWS Organizations. One of the key features of AWS Organizations is consolidated billing, which rolls up all of the charges incurred in member accounts to the AWS Organizations management account. There, costs can be viewed and analyzed in AWS Cost […]

Update June 16, 2021: In May 2021, AWS released an AWS Quick Start, which provides a simple, one-click implementation of New Relic’s integration with AWS Control Tower, with the following enhancements: Automatically enables New Relic’s AWS integration from your New Relic account. You no longer need to manually enable the integration from the New Relic […]

AWS Marketplace and AWS Data Exchange now support invoice payments in 14 currencies. With this launch, global customers can unlock more purchasing options and flexibility on the third-party software and data you need to achieve your business goals. This feature can help relieve your accounting department of the burden of paying and tracking foreign currency […]

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, […]