YEAR:

2025

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AWS Cloud Financial Console

AWS Cloud Financial Console

AWS Cloud Financial Console

Project overview.

As cloud adoption grows, organizations are under increasing pressure to gain control over their finances while maximizing the value of their AWS investments. Customers need a clear, unified view of their spending—from generating accurate pricing estimates during planning to monitoring actual usage and budgets in production—in order to detect anomalies, track costs, and identify savings opportunities. Until now, they often had to navigate across multiple consoles and tools to piece together insights. This fragmented experience not only consumed time and resources but also slowed decision-making and introduced risks of overspending or missed optimization opportunities. To solve this, I led the development of the unified Cloud Financial console—bringing together critical tools like Bills, Payments, Cost & Usage report, and Budgets & Monitor into a single, streamlined experience. The new home page provides high-level spending insights, cost drivers, anomalies, and tailored savings recommendations, personalized recommendations, enabling customers to quickly prioritize actions and transition seamlessly to the right workflows. By combining intuitive navigation, actionable recommendations, and improved learning resources, the Cloud Financial Console empowers customers to make faster, more confident decisions about their cloud finances, without the overhead of third-party solutions or complex, home-grown dashboards.

challenge.

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Phase 1
Enters AWS Billing & Cost Management
  • Seeking greater visibility and control over AWS usage and expenditures to better manage cloud costs.

  • Needing personalized, commitment-aware monitoring to reflect actual discounts and prevent budget overruns.

  • Frustrated by unexpected billing spikes and inaccurate forecasts caused by a lack of cost transparency.

Phase 2
Create Cloud Cost Estimate
  • Forecasting and Budgeting: start by building an estimate to ensure the cloud budget is managed with maximum precision.

  • Modernization Discovery: explore different application modernization paths to identify where user can drive the most significant cost savings.

  • Commitment Simulation: model various "what-if" scenarios to see how new Savings Plans or Reserved Instances would lower the bottom line.

  • Business Case Validation: synthesize these scenarios into a final migration forecast to secure stakeholder buy-in and justify the investment.

Phase 3
Import Cloud Usage
  • Streamlining Data Entry: choose to import real usage data rather than inputting it manually to reduce effort and ensure a high-accuracy baseline.

  • Grounding in Reality: base the simulations on actual deployments, allowing me to model optimizations for existing workloads instead of hypothetical scenarios.

  • Identifying Cost Drivers: leverage historical patterns to pinpoint which services or regions contribute most to the current spend before planning architectural changes

Phase 4
Model & Modify Usage
  • Analyzing Current Spend: User examines historical data across services and accounts to establish a baseline understanding of existing costs.

  • Simulating Growth: User adds new workloads and scales resources to model the financial impact of launching applications or increasing traffic.

  • Optimizing Workloads: User adjusts service volumes and upgrades instance types or regions to uncover potential savings and refine modernization strategies.

Phase 5
Analyze Estimate
  • Reviewing Cost Summaries: User reviews projected spend across services and regions to quickly identify major cost contributors for stakeholders.

  • Aligning Stakeholders: User shares estimates with finance and leadership to ensure migration and modernization plans align with budget goals.

  • Evaluating Commitments: User assesses how Savings Plans and Reserved Instances reduce long-term costs to validate the financial benefit of predictable usage.

  • Converting Insights to Action: User leverages estimate data to plan resource optimization, such as eliminating idle instances or shifting to cost-effective regions.

Phase 6
Optimize Cloud Spending
  • Validating Modernization: User leverages estimates to justify infrastructure upgrades and modernization efforts with data-backed financial forecasts.

  • Refining Purchasing Strategy: User compares various pricing models and service options to select the most cost-effective path for long-term savings.

result.

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