AWS Cloud Financial Management

All week long, our Cloud Financial Management experts have been speaking with customers and CFM practitioners from around the globe at re:Invent 2022. A few questions, time and again, have emerged as trending topics, so we’re answering them here, direct from the CFM kiosk.

Now, with the KPI Dashboard, customers can track cost optimization across their organization and visualize realized savings. In this blog, we’ll walk through the various ways you can use the data in your KPI dashboard.

AWS Compute Optimizer launched the capability to integrate with several leading application performance management and observability partners, so you can view recommendations for your resources, regardless of your application monitoring preference. You now have multiple options for acquiring and including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) memory metrics in your EC2 rightsizing recommendations.

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 […]

Learn about Singular’s AWS Graviton adoption process including their mental model, project execution, and measurement of success, resulting in an improved price-to-performance ratio by 35%.

Learn how to build some of the most common driver-based forecasts. Driver-based forecasting can help businesses make more accurate predictions about future spend, allowing you to better understand how driver changes may impact your overall forecast.

In this blog, we’ll explore how you can establish a cost forecasting culture to facilitate more productive conversations, a sense of ownership among all parties, and ultimately increase overall cloud business value.

It’s that time of year again, when companies are starting their 2023 planning. Since technology usage is often an organization’s highest expenditure after personnel costs, effectively forecasting cloud spend is vital to planning, negotiating, and achieving sustainable economies of scale as you grow and mature your business on the cloud. So, what can you can […]

In order to take advantage of the cloud’s agility, scalability, and speed-to-innovation, it’s essential to establish cost visibility and accountability. Transparent and accurate cost attribution helps you: Reduce waste and increase cost efficiency Measure ROI and align spend with business objectives, and Provide meaningful and actionable cost insights to help make more informed decisions about […]

When we talk about the Plan and Evaluate use case in the context of Cloud Financial Management, we refer to several use cases that all contribute to understanding and evaluating the economic performance of your IT investment, in alignment with your specific business priorities. We focus on the tools, resources, and best practices you can use […]