AWS Cloud Financial Management
Author: Bowen Wang
Bowen is a Principal Product Marketing Manager for AWS Billing and Cost Management services. She focuses on enabling finance and business leaders to better understand the value of the cloud and ways to optimize their cloud financial management. In her previous career, she helped a tech start up enter the Chinese market.
Leveraging the CFM lever to move your business world
“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world” – Archimedes. 451 Research’s recent whitepaper “Cloud Financial Management, Small Changes Can Make Big Impacts” (April 2020) highlights how organizations who are able to embrace the CFM lever correctly are able to accelerate both top […]
Organize your cost and usage data with AWS Cost Categories
UPDATE (December 11, 2025): Some information in this blog regarding the AWS Cost Categories is no longer current. For the latest features and documentation, please read this blog Improve Cost Visibility and Observability with AWS Cost Categories and this web page. ** Customers have let us know they want to better map their cost and […]
AWS Cost Explorer Rightsizing Recommendations Integrates with AWS Compute Optimizer
AWS Cost Explorer now delivers rightsizing recommendations across EC2 instance families through an integration with AWS Compute Optimizer, adding to existing support for rightsizing recommendations within the same instance family. To access Cost Explorer Rightsizing Recommendations, click on “Recommendations” in the left navigation pane, followed by “View All” in the “Resource optimization recommendations” section of the […]
Launch: Savings Plans Recommendations for Member (Linked) Accounts
AWS now generates Savings Plans recommendations for member (linked) accounts, adding to existing support for organization level Savings Plans recommendations.
Cloud Economics Sessions at AWS re:Invent 2019
AWS helps customers drive business value and optimize cloud spend. Yet, understanding these drivers and how to maximize the benefits of AWS requires education and practices. AWS Cloud Economics helps customers build business cases beyond pure cost savings and helps customers on the platform optimize financial practices & costs. AWS Cloud Economics team works […]