AWS Cloud Financial Management
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re:Invent 2024 Cost Optimization highlights that you were not expecting
With re:Invent 2024 in the books, and over 50 launch announcements, here are four that we’re most excited about. The overarching theme of these launches appears to be leveraging Amazon’s automation capabilities to optimize costs and improve efficiency for customers.
New Cloud Financial Management Digital Training Courses
We’re excited to announce the release of AWS Cloud Financial Management digital training courses. These are four 1-hour courses that will get you familiarized with key AWS solutions to solve your daily FinOps needs, and equip you with cost optimization techniques for commonly used AWS services.
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 […]
Choosing the AWS pricing strategy that fits your business
AWS pricing strategies offer you the flexibility to choose the most effective way to manage your costs and still keep the performance and capacity you require. Learn about Savings Plans and Reserved Instances and how you can decide what is right for your business.
Get AWS Cost Anomaly Detection alert notifications in Slack through AWS Chatbot
UPDATE (December 11, 2025):AWS Chatbot is now part of Amazon Q Developer. See details in documentation: Amazon Q Developer in chat applications rename – Summary of changes ** Get near real-time visibility into anomalous spend by receiving AWS Cost Anomaly Detection alert notifications in Slack using AWS Chatbot. With faster visibility and insights you can […]
AWS Cloud Financial Management August Recap
In the month of August, AWS Cloud Financial Management (CFM) team has made several feature enhancements that can make your CFM journey a bit easier. AWS celebrated the 15 year anniversary of Amazon EC2. Another successful CFM peer connect event was concluded. New customer story and CFM content have been published. Learn more about these updates.
Amazon EC2 – 15 Years of Optimizing and Saving Your IT Costs
As we celebrate the upcoming 15 years birthday of Amazon EC2, we walked down memory lane and took a look at all the customer-centric cost optimization resources available for you.
2021 Year-to-Date AWS Cloud Financial Management Updates Recap
For those of you who don’t want to miss any news from AWS Cloud Financial Management (CFM) space in 2021, this blog post will provide a quick recap of this year’s updates: from category name updates, to CFM training for builders, to all the service and feature enhancement across CFM solution areas.
Cost Control Blog Series #2: Automate Cost Control using AWS Service Catalog and AWS Budgets
Customers let us know that they want native, automated spend management capability at the point of self-service resource provisioning. AWS Service Catalog allows you to pre-approve services for your users. With its integration with AWS Budgets, you can create and associate budgets with portfolios and products, and keep your developers informed the resource costs for them to run cost-aware workloads. In this blog post, we will walk you through how you can set up a serverless automated workflow to govern the cost for your AWS Service Catalog portfolio.
Take a sneak peek at AWS re:Invent 2020 Cloud Financial Management Sessions
What do you miss most about re:Invent? For those of you who haven’t been to one yet, re:Invent is a conference hosted by AWS for the global cloud computing community. Each year tens of thousands of customers and partners from around the globe gather in Las Vegas for a week of “jam packed” launch announcement, education, networking, and most importantly fun activities.









