From San Diego to Your Organization: Latest AWS Announcements for FinOps X 2025
While San Diego’s famous June gloom may have cloaked the city in its characteristic overcast skies, the atmosphere within the FinOps X conference was anything but dreary. Over two exhilarating days, industry professionals engaged in countless stimulating conversations and meaningful exchanges. Emerging from these bustling discussions, the AWS Cloud Financial Management team has returned with a suite of feature enhancements designed to illuminate and streamline your everyday FinOps activities.
Cost Planning Inclusive of Your Organization’s Unique Rates
In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud resources, maintaining agility requires keen oversight of cost drivers in your planning and budgeting. Enter the newly available AWS Pricing Calculator. This authenticated tool enables users to model cost variations for existing workloads, compare costs between instance types or across geographic regions, and project expenses for new workloads. By providing estimates for Reserved Instances and Savings Plans, AWS empowers organizations to devise budgets informed by comprehensive cost projections, effectively translating into actionable financial strategies.
New Cost Comparison Feature for MoM Analysis
At re:Invent two years ago, a simple request for an automated cost comparison feature set off a cascade of innovation. Now unveiled in AWS Cost Explorer, users can effortlessly perform Month-over-Month (MoM) analysis directly within the Billing and Cost Management console. Dive deep into cost changes, exploring variances by service, usage type, or charge type. This automated feature leverages existing Cost Explore filters, allowing users to tailor their inquiries to specific areas of financial interest with unmatched precision.
Introducing Amazon Q, the Third CFM Interface
As the natural language processing capabilities of Generative AI continue to evolve, so too does AWS’s commitment to expanding its cost management tools. Through Amazon Q, a novel platform for cost analysis and management has emerged. Users can now query Cost Optimization Hub recommendations effortlessly, eschewing cumbersome memorization of filter combinations. For anyone eager to delve further, a direct link to Cost Explorer remains a click away.
New Aurora I/O Optimized Recommendations
For developers utilizing Amazon Aurora Services, AWS introduces I/O optimized recommendations tailored to Amazon Aurora Database clusters. By subscribing to the AWS Compute Optimizer, organizations receive personalized evaluations of their Aurora instances and I/O consumption, translating into targeted recommendations for I/O intensive applications. Adjust your evaluation period to ensure recommendations align with your operational timeline and cater to your most pressing application requirements.
Consistent Cost Optimization Recommendations with Preferences Considered
A new era of consistency has dawned in the realm of cost optimization. Thanks to collaboration with AWS Trusted Advisor, organizations now benefit from discount-aware checks that harmonize recommendations between Trusted Advisor and the Cost Optimization Hub. Tailor your commitment purchases with your preferred terms for Reserved Instances and Savings Plans, lending clarity and effectiveness to your financial estimates.
Fine-Tuning Your Cost Governance Measures
AWS Budgets continues to be an indispensable tool for organizations keen on stringent financial oversight. With the introduction of net unblended and net amortized costs datasets, financial governance grows ever more precise. Utilize the new “excludes” filter to bypass known cost anomalies, ensuring budget parameters remain closely aligned with business imperatives.
Furthermore, AWS Cost Anomaly Detection’s integration with Amazon User Notifications expands the horizon of alert management. Configure alerts across specific services with JSON coding, select communication preferences, and build an alert ecosystem that meets your organizational priorities efficiently.
Conclusion
The FinOps X conference has gracefully set the stage for a host of AWS innovations aimed at simplifying and enhancing financial operations within organizations. We encourage your feedback and look forward to continuously delivering advancements tailor-made for your FinOps endeavors. For those present at FinOps X, we invite you to explore these developments further at our breakout sessions: “What’s New with AWS Cost Optimization” at 11 AM in Breakout B, and “New FinOps Tools for Cost Analysis and Management” at 4:15 PM in the AWS Stage Room.
Together, let us embrace these tools to foster a brighter, more efficient financial future.