Cloud Financial Management
Get cost transparency, control, forecasting, and optimization.
Benefits
Management and control
Central billing, automatic cost governance, and simplified procurement processes.
Organization and reporting
Understand and track usage and costs appropriately.
Optimization and savings
Continuously optimize spending with personalized savings recommendations.
Use cases
Resources
Resources and Services
Organization
Develop a business-aligned cost allocation strategy.
AWS Billing Conductor, AWS Cost Allocation
Tags: AWS Cost Categories
Report
Increase awareness and accountability of yur cloud spending with detailed, allocatable cost data.
AWS Cost Explorer; AWS Cost and Usage Report; AWS Application Cost Profiler.
Access
Track billing information across the organization in a consolidated view.
AWS Consolidated Billing; AWS Purchase Order Management; AWS Credits.
Control
Establish effective governance mechanisms with the right protection measures.
AWS Cost Anomaly Detection; AWS Identity and Access Management; AWS Organizations; AWS Control Tower; AWS Service Catalog.
Forecast
Evaluate spending and resource utilization with forecasting dashboards.
AWS Cost Explorer (Self-Service); AWS Budgets (Event-Driven).
Budget
Keep your spending and resource utilization with forecasting dashboards.
AWS Budgets; AWS Budget Actions; AWS Service Catalog.
Purchase
Leverage free trials and programmatic discounts based on pattern and workload requirements.
AWS Free Tier; AWS Reserved Instances; AWS Savings Plans; AWS Spot Instances; Amazon DynamoDB On-demand.
Elasticity
Scale and schedule services based on pattern and usage needs.
AWS Instance Scheduler; Amazon Redshift pause and resume; EC2 Auto Scaling; AWS Trusted Advisor.
Sizing
Align service allocation size to actual workload demand.
AWS Cost Explorer Right Sizing Recommendations; AWS Compute Optimizer; Amazon Redshift resize; Amazon S3 Intelligent Tiering.
Inspection
Keep up on opportunities for cost optimization and resource deplyment.
AWS Cost Explorer.