Category: Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)

As organizations expand, FinOps teams require a comprehensive overview of AWS Savings Plans commitments to maximize utilization efficiency. This solution involves implementing monitoring systems and automated alerts to identify underutilized Savings Plans within the eligible return period. In this blog post, we provide AWS CloudFormation templates that create AWS Step Functions state machine, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) topic, Amazon EventBridge scheduler, and necessary AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles to automate the monitoring of newly purchased Savings Plans and highlight those that are underutilized.

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.

AWS Budgets allows you to stay informed of your cost and usage based on the custom budget limits.  You will receive alerts if your cost and usage exceed or are forecasted to exceed these monthly, quarterly, and/or annual budget thresholds you set yourselves.  The best way to leverage AWS Budgets is to set your expected […]