AWS Cloud Financial Management

Voiced by HAQM Polly September 8, 2021: HAQM Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to HAQM OpenSearch Service. See details. Having discussed what unit metrics are, real-life use cases, and the benefits they offer, we’ll share how you can create a good unit metric. So, how do you pick a good denominator for our unit metric formula? […]

Voiced by HAQM Polly   If you are currently using HAQM ECS and have set up your cost reporting with specific service filters to track your HAQM ECS cost and usage, please read this blog post. February 16, 2021, the product name of HAQM Elastic Container Service (HAQM ECS) was changed from “EC2 Container Service” to […]

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 HAQM S3.

Voiced by HAQM Polly From time to time, customers will ask me questions like, “my AWS bills are going up and I don’t know whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing?” Did the bill go up because you’re operating more workloads in the cloud or is it because you’re using AWS inefficiently? Perhaps […]

Voiced by HAQM Polly   Throughout your IT planning and evaluation cycle, you will have questions about how much you should budget for your IT projects and how well your IT investments perform and contribute to your businesses.  AWS provides you with tools and resources, such as AWS Pricing Calculator, AWS Budgets, AWS Cost Explorer, […]

Find cost savings from 2020 re:Invent announcements. Learn how you can save with HAQM EBS gp3; monitor and save your AWS Lambda cost with CloudWatch Lambda Insights; and save cost for your HAQM Athena usage with engine version 2 and control costs for your Athena workgroups with CloudWatch Query Metrics.

Protecting your web applications from common web exploits is of the essence for intellectual and information security. In this blog post, we will walk you through how you can estimate your AWS Shield Advanced monthly cost based on your current resources usage, and how much you will save when you stop paying for AWS WAF, and instead using AWS Shield Advanced.

One of our focuses this year is to share more customer stories with you. We recently sat down with one of our customers and a valued partner – Duda to reflect upon their Cloud Financial Management (CFM) journey. In this blog post, we will give you a brief overview on how they tackled this important task.

This year, as the world is still coping with the post-vaccine new normal, cloud cost efficiency and optimization will remain at the top of the agenda. As we are improving our product capabilities, your user experience is at the center of everything we build. We invite you to share your feedback with us, come meet your peers, and share your success stories.

We are excited to announce that AWS Cost Anomaly Detection is now generally available. AWS Cost Anomaly Detection uses a multi-layered machine learning model that learns your unique, historic spend patterns to detect one-time cost spike and/or continuous cost increases, without you having to define your thresholds. Every anomaly detected will be available in the detection history tab. We send you the anomaly detection report with root-cause analysis. And the service also comes at no cost to our customers.