AWS FinOps News

Simplify Departmental Cost Allocation with AWS Organizations and Lambda

AWS Organizations and Lambda enable automated departmental cost allocation, replacing manual tracking. This solution provides clear visibility into spending across departments, streamlining the allocation process.

AWS Price List Gets a Natural Language Upgrade: Introducing the AWS Pricing MCP Server

AWS releases open-source tool for natural language pricing queries. Ask about costs for specific resources and get instant answers through AI assistants using the Model Context Protocol.

Automating Budget Management Across Multi-Account Environments

Centralized AWS budget management system tracks spending across accounts, sets custom thresholds, and sends automated alerts, enabling efficient cost control from a single management account.

How to Set Up Automated Alerts for Newly Purchased AWS Savings Plans

FinOps teams need to monitor AWS Savings Plans for efficiency. This solution uses CloudFormation templates to create automated systems that track utilization and alert on underused plans within the return period.

Navigating GPU Challenges: Cost Optimizing AI Workloads on AWS

GPU optimization: Procurement, AWS accelerators, alternatives, managed services, sharing, containers, monitoring. Holistic approach maximizes AI/ML performance and cost-efficiency, building sustainable practices for the future.

Optimizing cost for deploying Amazon Q

Amazon Q cost optimization tips: Choose right pricing tier, manage users strategically, optimize content indexing, improve cost predictability. Balance functionality and efficiency for both Q Business and Q Developer implementations.

Optimize Your AWS Spend with New Cost Savings Features in AWS Trusted Advisor

AWS Trusted Advisor adds 15 new cost optimization checks from AWS Cost Optimization Hub, expanding capabilities to provide more actionable insights and consistent cost savings recommendations for customers.

Quick MoM Cost Analysis with Cost Comparison in AWS Cost Explorer

New AWS Cost Explorer feature automates month-over-month cost analysis, helping identify spending variations across services, accounts, and regions. Quickly explains changes in usage, discounts, and credits.

The authenticated AWS Pricing Calculator is now generally available

AWS Pricing Calculator now available in Billing Console. Improves estimate accuracy with discounts. Model costs for migrations, workload changes, and commitments. Easily plan and optimize AWS spending.

AWS Compute Optimizer now supports Aurora I/O-Optimized Recommendations

AWS Compute Optimizer now offers recommendations for Aurora DB clusters, analyzing costs and identifying ways to use I/O-Optimized storage to save money and improve price predictability for I/O-heavy workloads.

From San Diego to Your Organization: Latest AWS Announcements for FinOps X 2025

Despite overcast skies, FinOps X conference in San Diego buzzed with energy. In just 1.5 days, attendees had insightful talks, leading to feature enhancements aimed at brightening daily FinOps operations.

Join Us at FinOps X 2025: Your Guide to All Things AWS

AWS team at FinOps X 2025 in San Diego, June 2-5. Find them at various locations to connect and engage with the FinOps community. Opportunity for quality time with AWS representatives during the conference.

Export and visualize carbon emissions data from your AWS accounts

AWS now exports carbon emissions data monthly to S3, with account and region details. This can be visualized in Cloud Intelligence Dashboards, allowing tracking across organizations and custom analysis down to individual accounts.

Improving accuracy for your cloud budgeting with new features in AWS Budgets

AWS Budgets adds new cost metrics, exclusion options, charge type filters, and API enhancements for more flexible spend tracking and management across services, accounts, and instances.

Updated Carbon Methodology for the AWS Customer Carbon Footprint Tool

AWS's Customer Carbon Footprint Tool tracks emissions from cloud usage. Updates: easier data access via Billing exports, region-level carbon data, and verified methodology. Covers Scope 1 & 2 emissions for all AWS products.

Optimizing cost for using foundational models with Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock cost optimization: Choose pricing options, select models wisely, optimize knowledge bases, use prompt caching, and leverage automated reasoning. Balance capability and cost with managed AI models on AWS.

Optimizing cost for building AI models with Amazon EC2 and SageMaker AI

EC2 and SageMaker AI power AWS Generative AI. EC2 provides computing, SageMaker offers tools. Cost optimization crucial due to high-performance needs. Efficient resource management reduces costs while maintaining performance.

Optimizing Cost for Generative AI with AWS

Exploring generative AI? Understand the investment and potential returns. Upcoming blog series will offer tips for AI practitioners and FinOps leaders on optimizing costs of generative AI adoption with AWS, focusing on efficiency and savings.

AWS Savings Plans: How to Implement an Effective Chargeback Strategy

Define chargeback for Savings Plans: Allocate discounts from management/linked accounts to recipient accounts. Identify accounts receiving discounts and determine chargeback amounts based on usage. Enables fair cost distribution.

Automating custom rates at scale: an Amazon case study with AWS Billing Conductor

Amazon leveraged AWS Billing Conductor to create a custom solution for viewing internal AWS costs in Cost Explorer and Cost and Usage Report, enhancing their cost management capabilities.

re:Invent 2024 Cost Optimization highlights that you were not expecting

AWS re:Invent 2024 highlights: 4 key launches focus on automation to optimize costs and boost efficiency. Amazon aims to leverage its tech to help customers improve operations and reduce expenses.

2024 re:Invent announcement recap for AWS Cloud Financial Management services

AWS Cloud Financial Management adds 10 new features to help with FinOps tasks. These enhancements aim to improve efficiency and are presented as holiday gifts to users. Feedback on experiences is welcomed.

Introducing custom billing views: tailored cost and usage view for your stakeholders

AWS launches custom billing views, enabling multi-account cost data access for teams without granting management account access. Designated member accounts can now view organization-wide cost info.

Configuring your AWS Invoices using Invoice Configuration

Today, AWS announced Invoice Configuration, which provides you the ability to customize your invoices to fit your unique business needs. Invoice Configuration enables you to receive separate AWS invoices for each of your business…

Data Exports for FOCUS 1.0 is now in general availability

Today AWS announced the general availability release of Data Exports for FOCUS 1.0. You can now create exports of your AWS cost and usage data with the FOCUS 1.0 schema with significant specification conformance improvements compared to the…

Announcing Savings Plans Purchase Analyzer

Starting today, you can easily model your next Savings Plans purchases and evaluate the impact on cost, coverage, and utilization in the AWS Billing and Cost Management Console. You can input your own commitment amount or generate a recommended commitment…

Faster anomaly resolution with enhanced root cause analysis in AWS Cost Anomaly Detection

Today, AWS enhanced Cost Anomaly Detection with the ability to provide multiple root causes for cost anomalies. This new capability empowers FinOps professionals and cloud financial managers to…

Create your personalized cost estimate with the enhanced AWS Pricing Calculator (public preview)

Today, we’re excited to announce the enhanced AWS Pricing Calculator that is now available as a public preview feature within the AWS Billing and Cost Management Console. The new capability provides…