AWS Cloud Financial Management
AWS Cost Explorer’s New Look and Common Use Cases
Update: By April 19, 2023, you will no longer be able to roll back to the old Cost Explorer UI. Feel free to submit feedback in the console. We’ll continue improving the experience. The following blog was published on Nov.8, summarizing the Cost Explorer UI changes made in October this year. We’ve since incorporated your […]
2022 CFM Peer Connect recap: What are customers doing to allocate shared costs?
The Cloud Financial Management (CFM) Peer Connect is a peer-focused interactive virtual event, providing AWS customers an environment to have an unbiased, open exchange of ideas and best practices relating to transforming your business with cost transparency, control, forecasting, and optimization. We share the top three ways customer have told us they allocate shared costs.
AWS re:Invent 2022 CEO Keynote through the Cloud Financial Management lens
How should we look at Cloud Financial Management in these uncertain economic times? In his re:Invent 2022 keynote speech, AWS CEO Adam Selipsky opened with the idea that in times of uncertainty, it’s tempting to cut back and slow down. He counters, however, that when it comes to the cloud, customers should be leaning in […]
Trending topics from the AWS re:Invent CFM kiosk
All week long, our Cloud Financial Management experts have been speaking with customers and CFM practitioners from around the globe at re:Invent 2022. A few questions, time and again, have emerged as trending topics, so we’re answering them here, direct from the CFM kiosk.
How to track your cost optimization KPIs with the KPI Dashboard
Now, with the KPI Dashboard, customers can track cost optimization across their organization and visualize realized savings. In this blog, we’ll walk through the various ways you can use the data in your KPI dashboard.
AWS Compute Optimizer launches integration with application performance monitoring and observability partners
AWS Compute Optimizer launched the capability to integrate with several leading application performance management and observability partners, so you can view recommendations for your resources, regardless of your application monitoring preference. You now have multiple options for acquiring and including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) memory metrics in your EC2 rightsizing recommendations.
Using the right tools for your cloud cost forecasting
We’re at the final blog of our forecasting series! If you’ve been following along the past few weeks, you have explored creating a process for more effective forecasting, establishing a forecasting culture, and building driver-based forecasting. It is now time to put pen to paper and create your forecast. But where do you start? How […]
Singular improves price-to-performance ratio by 35% in just a few days with AWS Graviton2
Learn about Singular’s AWS Graviton adoption process including their mental model, project execution, and measurement of success, resulting in an improved price-to-performance ratio by 35%.
Understand and build driver-based forecasting
Learn how to build some of the most common driver-based forecasts. Driver-based forecasting can help businesses make more accurate predictions about future spend, allowing you to better understand how driver changes may impact your overall forecast.
How to establish and drive a forecasting culture
In this blog, we’ll explore how you can establish a cost forecasting culture to facilitate more productive conversations, a sense of ownership among all parties, and ultimately increase overall cloud business value.