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Perform per-project cost allocation in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio

Enrique Salgado Hernández — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:27:45 +0000

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio enables per-project cost allocation through resource tagging, allowing organizations to track and manage costs across different projects and domains effectively. This post demonstrates how to implement cost tracking using AWS Billing and Cost Management tools, including Cost Explorer and Data Exports, to help finance and business analysts follow FinOps best practices for controlling cloud infrastructure costs.

Analyzing your AWS Cost Explorer data with Amazon Q Developer: Now Generally Available

Riya Dani — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 16:08:48 +0000

We are excited to announce the general availability of the cost analysis capability in Amazon Q Developer. This powerful feature integrates Q Developer’s natural language processing capabilities with AWS Cost Explorer, revolutionizing how you analyze and understand your AWS costs. Initially launched in preview on April 30, 2024, the Amazon Q cost analysis capability now offers enhanced […]

How to track Amazon OpenSearch Service domain-level cost

Nikhil Agarwal — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 16:58:42 +0000

Amazon OpenSearch Service Pricing is based on three dimensions: instances, storage, and data transfer. Storage pricing depends on the chosen storage type and also the storage tier. Visibility into domain-level charges enables accurate budgeting, efficient resource allocation, fair cost attribution across projects, and overall cost transparency. In this post, we show you how to view the OpenSearch Service domain-level cost using AWS Cost Explorer.

Monitoring AWS Cost Explorer with Zabbix

evgenii.gordymov — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 12:58:37 +0000

Cloud-based service platforms are becoming increasingly popular, and one of the most widely adopted is Amazon Web Services (AWS).…

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Monitor and optimize cost on AWS Glue for Apache Spark

Leonardo Gomez — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 15:33:24 +0000

AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it simple to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning (ML), and application development. You can use AWS Glue to create, run, and monitor data integration and ETL (extract, transform, and load) pipelines and catalog your assets across multiple data stores. One of […]

Manage your data warehouse cost allocations with Amazon Redshift Serverless tagging

Sandeep Bajwa — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 15:36:22 +0000

Amazon Redshift Serverless makes it simple to run and scale analytics without having to manage your data warehouse infrastructure. Developers, data scientists, and analysts can work across databases, data warehouses, and data lakes to build reporting and dashboarding applications, perform real-time analytics, share and collaborate on data, and even build and train machine learning (ML) […]

Let’s Architect! Optimizing the cost of your architecture

Luca Mezzalira — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 16:53:00 +0000

Written in collaboration with Ben Moses, AWS Senior Solutions Architect, and Michael Holtby, AWS Senior Manager Solutions Architecture Designing an architecture is not a simple task. There are many dimensions and characteristics of a solution to consider, such as the availability, performance, or resilience. In this Let’s Architect!, we explore cost optimization and ideas on […]

Email delta cost usage report in a multi-account organization using AWS Lambda

Ashutosh Dubey — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 18:59:07 +0000

Overview of solution AWS Organizations gives customers the ability to consolidate their billing across accounts. This reduces billing complexity and centralizes cost reporting to a single account. These reports and cost information are available only to users with billing access to the primary AWS account. In many cases, there are members of senior leadership or […]

Diving Deep into EC2 Spot Instance Cost and Operational Practices

Sheila Busser — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 18:42:27 +0000

This blog post is written by, Sudhi Bhat, Senior Specialist SA, Flexible Compute. Amazon EC2 Spot Instances are one of the popular choices among customers looking to cost optimize their workload running on AWS. Spot Instances let you take advantage of unused Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) capacity in the AWS cloud and are […]

AWS Week in Review – August 22, 2022

Marcia Villalba — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 18:03:08 +0000

This post is part of our Week in Review series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS! I’m back from my summer holidays and ready to get up to date with the latest AWS news from last week! Last Week’s Launches Here are some launches that got […]

Journey to Cloud-Native Architecture Series #6: Improve cost visibility and re-architect for cost optimization

Anuj Gupta — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 00:15:50 +0000

After we improved our security posture in the 5th blog of the series, we discovered that operational costs are growing disproportionately higher than revenue. This is because the number of users grew more than 10 times on our e-commerce platform. To address this, we created a plan to better understand our AWS spend and identify cost […]

Improving Performance and Reducing Cost Using Availability Zone Affinity

Michael Haken — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 16:52:29 +0000

One of the best practices for building resilient systems in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networks is using multiple Availability Zones (AZ). An AZ is one or more discrete data centers with redundant power, networking, and connectivity. Using multiple AZs allows you to operate workloads that are more highly available, fault tolerant, and scalable than […]

17 additional AWS services authorized for DoD workloads in the AWS GovCloud Regions

Tyler Harding — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 23:33:22 +0000

I’m pleased to announce that the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has authorized 17 additional Amazon Web Services (AWS) services and features in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, bringing the total to 105 services and major features that are authorized for use by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). AWS now offers additional services to […]