Category: AWS Cloud Financial Management

Amazon QuickSight is a business intelligence (BI) solution that any organization can leverage to share data and insights to anyone in the organization. As a serverless BI tool, it offers a comprehensive set of advanced analytics features, and one core benefit is that pricing is consumption based. That being said, Quicksight can be leveraged for different use cases and each variant might require a different method to track and report on the cost of running QuickSight. In this post, we explore how you can use AWS CUR and AWS tags to monitor how specific users are using QuickSight. We also discuss how these tags can help organizations implement cloud cost controls by providing the data needed to support custom chargeback reporting.

This is a guest post authored by Rahul Subramaniam, Founder and CEO of CloudFix. In this post, we share how our development team saved time and money—and enhanced customer satisfaction—by embedding Amazon QuickSight into our software as a service (SaaS) product. CloudFix is a cloud cost-optimization platform that helps organizations identify cost-saving opportunities in their […]

This is a guest post co-written with Frank Contrepois from Strategic Blue. In this post, we share how Strategic Blue uses Amazon QuickSight and AWS Cost and Usage Reports to help their customers save costs. For over 10 years, Strategic Blue has helped organizations unlock the most value from the cloud by enabling their customers […]