AWS Cloud Financial Management
Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance
Simplify Departmental Cost Allocation with AWS Organizations and Lambda
In this blog, we’ll explore a straightforward, automated approach to departmental cost allocation using AWS Organizations and AWS Lambda. The solution eliminates manual tracking and gives you clear visibility into departmental spending.
Export and visualize carbon emissions data from your AWS accounts
In April 2025, AWS added carbon emissions data to AWS Data Exports. This managed feature introduces the ability to automatically export carbon emissions data with AWS Account and AWS Region granularity on a monthly basis to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). When using AWS Organizations, the carbon emissions export delivers data for all member accounts linked to your management account. This blog post explains how to configure the recurring delivery of carbon emissions data to Amazon S3 and visualize the exported data in the sustainability-proxy-metrics dashboard of the Cloud Intelligence Dashboards (CID). Utilizing Data Exports and the CID, you can track emissions across more than one AWS organization, with the ability to build custom visualizations and drill down to member account-level granularity.
Automating tagging for resources created by AWS Service Catalog
This blog shows how you can automatically propagate account-level tags to AWS resources created by AWS Service Catalog. Service Catalog allows sharing of portfolios across AWS accounts and provides a TagOption library to manage tags on provisioned AWS resources. Resource tagging varies by account, so it is not part of the portfolio product configurations. We designed the solution to reduce the burden on users to a minimum, while also adopting cloud best practices such as infrastructure automation.
Improve cost visibility of Amazon EKS with AWS Split Cost Allocation Data
We’re excited to announce granular cost visibility for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) in the AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR), enabling you to analyze, optimize, and chargeback cost and usage for your Kubernetes applications. With AWS Split Cost Allocation Data for Amazon EKS, customers can now allocate application costs to individual business units […]
Starting your Cloud Financial Management journey: Cloud cost operations
In the final blog of our 4-part Starting your Cloud Financial Management journey series, we’ll look at how CFM fits into the structure of your business via processes, polices, and people that are key in your cloud journey.
Starting your Cloud Financial Management journey: Cost savings
In this blog, we’ll share tools you can setup, pricing models you can take advantage of, and services you can use that will help you identify cost optimization opportunities in your workloads.
Starting your Cloud Financial Management journey: Cost visibility
As your company starts to innovate faster, develop new solutions, and take advantage of the flexible model of the cloud, you need to ensure your CFM setup can handle it all. To help you get started, this blog series is going to take you through each of the four AWS CFM principles: See, Save, Plan, and Run. We’ll give you practical recommendations you can implement to set your business up for success.
Changes to AWS Billing, Cost Management, and Account Consoles Permissions
AWS will be retiring AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) actions for the Billing, Cost Management, and Account Consoles under the service prefix aws-portal and two actions under purchase order namespace, purchase-orders:ViewPurchaseOrders, and purchase-orders:ModifyPurchaseOrders. We are replacing them with new fine-grained service specific permissions that give you more control. Read this blog and understand how you can perform updates to your permissions so you can maintain intentional access control to Billing, Cost Management, and Account services.
Cost Tagging and Reporting with AWS Organizations
Voiced by Amazon Polly Organized, meaningful cost and usage data helps make informed decisions for your cloud investment. AWS provides various resources and tools to help you organize resources and accounts, such as AWS Cost Categories, AWS Control Tower, and AWS Organizations. AWS Organizations is a great service to centrally manage and govern your […]
Cost Reporting Based on AWS Organizations Account ID Tags
This blog post shares how you can build cost reports based on AWS Organizations Account tags. Learn how you can retrieve your account information, including tags from AWS Organizations, get your cost details from the AWS Cost Explorer API, and store this information in a CSV file in Amazon S3.