Overview of the AWS Cost Management product suite, as well as the day's agenda.

1. AWS Cost Management Workshop
Erin Carlson | Product Marketing Manager
Eugene Khvostov | Senior Product Manager, Technical
Kuljot Anand | Senior Product Manager, Technical

2. Agenda
• 9:30-10:00: Check-in
• 10:00 -10:15: Introduction to AWS Cost Management
• 10:15 -11:00: AWS Budgets Workshop
• 11:00 -11:45: AWS Cost Explorer Workshop
• 11:45 -12:00: Next Steps + Q&A
• 12:00 -1:00: Lunch
• 1:00 -1:45: AWS Reservations
• 1:45 – 2:15: Next Steps + Q&A

3. AWS Cost Management Product Suite
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Expansive Selection
AWS provides 125+
services to address your
business needs
On-Demand Access
Resources can be spun
up by anyone in your
organization at any time
Usage-Based Billing
Usage is metered in
granular units (e.g., time
or bytes), and you only
pay for what you use
Significant increase in the
amount of cost and usage
data spread across many
products

4. AWS Cost Management Product Suite
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Access OptimizeUnderstandOrganize Control
AWS Cost &
Usage Reports
AWS
Recommendations
AWS
Cost Explorer
AWS Cost
Categorization
AWS
Budgets

5. AWS Cost Management Product Suite
Access OptimizeUnderstandOrganize Control
Data Visualization
Trend Analysis
Cost Drivers
Usage Patterns
Cost Categorization
Tagging
Cost Allocation
Cost Budgeting
Usage Budgeting
AWS Credit Sharing
Cost Reporting
Usage Reporting
Data Analysis
Cost Visibility
RI Allocation RI Discount Sharing
Reserved Instances
Utilization Alerting
Coverage AlertingEmail Alerting

6. 2018 Highlights
10/24: AWS Budgets
Redesign
11/15: AWS Cost
Explorer Redesign
11/19: AWS Cost
Explorer Forecasting
Enhancements
5
Cost Management
Products
20+
Significant
Feature Releases
10
RI-Related
Feature Releases
2
Comprehensive
Product Redesigns
11/19: Cost & Usage
Report Integration
with Amazon Athena
Highlights

7. 2018 Highlights: Reserved Instance (RI) Management
1/23: Amortized
Reservations Data
3/13: RI Coverage
Reports for Amazon
RDS, Redshift,
ElastiCache
3/20: API Access to
RI Purchase
Recommendations
4/19: Amazon RDS RI
Purchase
Recommendations
6/27: RI Purchase
Recommendations
for Linked Accounts
7/11: RI Purchase
Rec’s for Redshift,
ElastiCache,
Elasticsearch
5/8: RI Coverage
Alerts via AWS
Budgets
6/13: RI Savings
Information in Cost
Explorer
11/6: RI Purchase
Rec’s for Individual
Linked Accounts
11/8: RI Utilization &
Coverage Alerts for
Elasticsearch RIs

8. AWS Cost Management Product Suite
AWS Cost
Explorer
AWS Budgets AWS Reservations

9. AWS Cost Management Product Suite
Access OptimizeUnderstandOrganize Control
Data Visualization
Trend Analysis
Cost Drivers
Usage Patterns
Cost Categorization
Tagging
Cost Allocation
Cost Budgeting
Usage Budgeting
AWS Credit Sharing
Cost Reporting
Usage Reporting
Data Analysis
Cost Visibility
RI Allocation RI Discount Sharing
Reserved Instances
Utilization Alerting
Coverage AlertingEmail Alerting

10. AWS BudgetsAWS Cost Management
AWS Budgets

11. Streamlined user experience
Simplified workflows make it easier to
create and manage budgets
Cost Explorer integration
AWS Budgets is now integrated with
Cost Explorer, providing contextually-
relevant data to help you set budgets
appropriately
Review budget performance
View how your actuals have performed
against your budgeted amounts
historically
AWS BudgetsAWS Cost Management

12. Embed AWS Budgets into your
automation processes
Use AWS Budgets’ integration with AWS
CloudFormation to automatically create
budgets when you provision resources
via CloudFormation
Simplify cost tracking across
your accounts
Automatically create budgets for each
account you provision using
CloudFormation Stacks and StackSets
AWS BudgetsAWS Cost Management

13. AWS Budgets Demo
• Create custom budgets based
on your costs, usage, or
reservations
• Monitor your budget
performance and history
AWS BudgetsAWS Cost Management

14. AWS Cost Explorer
AWS Cost ExplorerAWS BudgetsAWS Cost Management

15. Comprehensive dashboards
Gain a summary view of key cost details,
including month-to-date costs, month-
end forecasted costs, and saved reports
Automated trend analysis
Identifies anomalous cost and usage
events, across your account(s), based on
historical patterns
Optimized user experience
Users of all levels of expertise in your
organization can quickly onboard and
feel confident using Cost Explorer to
address their cost management needs
AWS Cost ExplorerAWS BudgetsAWS Cost Management

16. Plan for future spending
Increased forecasting accuracy due to
new machine learning- and rules-based
models, allowing you to plan ahead with
more confidence
Customize your forecasts
Use Cost Explorer’s filtering capabilities
to forecast costs along specific usage
dimensions
Programmatic access
Forecasting functionality is also
available via the Cost Explorer API
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17. AWS Cost Explorer Demo
• Cost Explorer Monthly Trends
• Cost Explorer Data Exploration
• AWS Cost Explorer API
Integration with Slack
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18. Any Questions?
Check out the AWS Cost Management webpages!
www.aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management

19. Next Steps
1. Access and use the AWS Billing Dashboard
2. Create a custom report in AWS Cost Explorer
3. Set a total monthly cost budget using AWS Budgets
4. Access your RI Purchase Recommendations in AWS Cost Explorer
5. Consider enabling the AWS Cost & Usage Report

20. AWS ReservationsAWS Cost ExplorerAWS BudgetsAWS Cost Management
AWS Reservations

21. AWS Reservations
• AWS Reservations (often called Reserved Instances or RI) offer you
a discounted hourly rate (sometimes up to 75%) compared to on-
demand usage
• Commit to a 1- or 3-year term of service usage for supported
services (Amazon EC2, RDS, Redshift, ElastiCache, and
Elasticsearch)
• You can access your custom RI Purchase Recommendations in
AWS Cost Explorer

22. Automated purchase
recommendations
Cost Explorer analyzes your historical
usage patterns to identify savings
opportunities specific to your business
Customizable parameters
Purchase RIs that fit your business
requirements (e.g., only 1-year partial
upfront convertible RIs)
Supports multiple AWS services
Support for reservations across Amazon
EC2, RDS, Redshift, ElastiCache, and
Elasticsearch
AWS ReservationsAWS Cost ExplorerAWS BudgetsAWS Cost Management

23. Monitor your RI portfolio
Report on your RI portfolio, including
your utilization and coverage patterns,
over time, in AWS Cost Explorer
Track your RI-related savings
Identify the amount you are saving,
relative to on-demand prices, at a
glance
Set custom alerts
Receive alerts via AWS Budgets when
your RI utilization and coverage falls
below the thresholds you define
AWS ReservationsAWS Cost ExplorerAWS BudgetsAWS Cost Management

24. AWS Reservations Demo
• Purchase Recommendations
• Reservations Summary
• Reservation Utilization &
Coverage Reporting
• Reservation-based Alerting
AWS ReservationsAWS Cost ExplorerAWS BudgetsAWS Cost Management

25. Any Questions?
Check out the AWS Cost Management webpages!
www.aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management

26. Next Steps
1.Access and use the AWS Billing Dashboard
2.Create a custom report in AWS Cost Explorer
3.Set a total monthly cost budget using AWS Budgets
4.Access your RI Purchase Recommendations in AWS Cost Explorer
5.Consider enabling the AWS Cost & Usage Report

27. AWS Cost & Usage Reports

28. Apache Parquet support
Leverage columnar data store to reduce
file size and cost while increasing query
performance over traditional CSV
Query Cost & Usage Report with
Amazon Athena
Integrated with Amazon Athena, making
it easy to analyze cost and usage data
directly from Amazon S3 using standard
SQL
Simplified delivery
Month-to-date file overwrite reduces
the number of files, making it easier to
find relevant data
AWS Cost & Usage ReportsAWS Cost ExplorerAWS Cost Management

29. AWS Cost & Usage ReportsAWS Cost ExplorerAWS Cost Management
1. Report is delivered to your
Amazon S3 bucket
2. Ingest report into a database
or tool of your choice
3. Build out custom queries,
reports, and more!
You will be asked to specify
the specific S3 location during
report configuration
Your reports can be ingested
directly into Amazon Redshift
and/or Amazon QuickSight
Your reports can be ingested
directly into Amazon Redshift
and/or Amazon QuickSight
How does the Cost & Usage Report work?

30. AWS Cost Management | Problem Space Assets

31. AWS Cost Management | Use Case Assets
Analyze Optimize Control

32. AWS Cost Management | Branding Assets

33. AWS Cost Management | Abstract Assets
AWS Cost
Explorer
AWS Cost &
Usage Reports
AWS Budgets