AWS Cloud Financial Management

Using AWS tools to implement your Cloud Financial Management strategy

To operationalize your CFM strategy, you need to identify what tools are available to help you allocate, visualize, and control your AWS cost and usage. In this blog, we’ll share our latest CFM Talk session, where we walk you through an example optimization (using AWS Graviton) to shed light on the framework for how you should think about each CFM pillar and layer tooling into your strategy.

Get cost estimates faster with AWS Pricing Calculator bulk import

AWS Pricing Calculator now supports the ability to bulk import Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, dedicated hosts and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes using a structured Excel template. The new feature will allow you to estimate a fleet of EC2- or EBS-based resources at a fraction of the time and allows for quick iterations.

ICYMI: Optimize your EBS volumes, networks, and overall costs

In this first ICYMI blog of 2023, we’re sharing articles from across the AWS blogosphere and AWS Cloud Financial Management, to help you start the year off right. Explore these resources to understand and start implementing important optimizations from varying perspectives. Whether you’re in a technical, financial, or business role, these optimizations can help you […]

Optimizing resource efficiency with AWS Compute Optimizer

It’s well known how important it is to learn about strategies for holistic cloud cost optimization, how AWS has improved its cost-optimization recommendation solutions, and how to use those solutions to map capacity to your needs and make better cost-optimization decisions while maintaining high performance. AWS Compute Optimizer helps you identify the optimal AWS resource […]

How-to chargeback shared services: An AWS Transit Gateway example

In this blog, we will review how to define a chargeback and cost allocation strategy, and then walk you through a reference architecture to build and automate the chargeback process. The example will provide prescriptive guidance to chargeback AWS Transit Gateway costs.

5 steps to establishing proactive cloud cost optimization

Cloud cost optimization is often implemented as a reactive activity, despite being intrinsically proactive by nature. By implementing these 5 cloud cost optimization best practices, you can ensure proactivity as you maximize realized business value and take advantage of the flexibility, agility, and scalability of cloud technologies and services.