John Phillips
GM / Director, AWS Insights and Optimizations at AWS
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster.
Product or Service Overview
AWS has a set of solutions to help you with cost management and optimization. This includes services, tools, and resources to organize and track cost and usage data, enhance control through access permission and cost monitoring, enable better planning through budgeting and forecasts, and further lower cost with resources and pricing optimizations.
- Cost & Usage Reports
- Cost Categories
- Cost Allocation Tags
- Cost Explorer
- Budgets
- Cost Anomaly Detection
- Savings Plans
- Reservations
Supporting Resources
- AWS Cost Explorer: Visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time
- AWS Cost and Usage Reports: Dive deeper into your AWS cost and usage data
- AWS Budgets: Improve planning and cost control with flexible budgeting and forecasting
- AWS Cost Anomaly Detection: Automated cost anomaly detection and root cause analysis
- AWS Cost Categories: Map cost and usage information to your organizational structure
- AWS Compute Optimizer: Get recommendations to optimize your use of AWS resources
- AWS Billing Conductor: Simplify billing and reporting with customizable pricing and cost visibility
- Customer Carbon Footprint Tool: Track, measure, review, and forecast the carbon emissions generated from your AWS usage
- Cloud Intelligence Dashboards (CUDOS): a collection of open source customizable FinOps dashboards with actionable insights and optimization recommendations for entire organization in a single place
- Cloud Financial Management Technical Implementation Playbooks (CFM TIPs) - (Aka CFF)
