AWS Billing and Cost Management

AWS Billing and Cost Management new features and capabilities

New Cost Optimization Hub centralizes recommended actions to save you money

This feature makes it easy for you to identify, filter, aggregate, and quantify savings for AWS cost optimization recommendations.

AWS Cost Explorer now provides more historical and granular data

Adding resource-level data at daily granularity enables customers to understand which resources are driving costs without needing to leave AWS Cost Explorer.

Announcing the Cost and Usage Dashboard powered by Amazon QuickSight

If you are familiar with CUDOS or Cloud Intelligence Dashboard (CID) you can now have a similar experience directly from within AWS Console with AWS Data Exports and Amazon QuickSight

myApplications: One place to view and manage your applications on AWS

Brilliant feature allowing you to track cost, optimize (and more) per Application

AWS Free Tier usage is now available through the GetFreeTierUsage API

Customers can programmatically track free tier usage against monthly usage limits, which allows customers to understand when their free usage will transition to pay-as-you-go pricing each month. This

Storage

AWS storage services related announcements offering cost savings opportunities

Amazon EFS Archive (Save up to 50% on cold, rarely-accessed file data)

Amazon EFS Archive is a new storage class that is cost-optimized for long-lived file data that is accessed a few times a year or less

Management & Governance

AWS management and governance services related announcements offering cost savings opportunities

Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces Infrequent Access log class

CloudWatch Logs IA offers a lower per GB ingestion price making Logs IA ideal for ad-hoc querying and after-the-fact forensic analysis on infrequently accessed logs.

AWS Config now supports periodic recording: Efficiently scale your change tracking

By only recording configuration items for changes once per day, periodic recording can lower the volume and cost of collecting configuration changes, while helping you scalably track and enforce compl

Compute

EC2, ECS or EKS and End-user computing related announcements offering cost optimization opportunities

AWS Compute Optimizer introduces customizable rightsizing recommendations for EC2 Instances

This feature allows you customize EC2 rightsizing recommendations for higher savings and performance sensitivity, aligning recommendations with your business needs.

Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client is now generally available

Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client, a low-cost end-user device that helps organizations reduce overall virtual desktop costs, strengthen security posture, and simplify end-user deployment.

[Preview] Amazon EC2 R8g Instances Memory optimized instances powered by AWS Graviton4 processors

We are opening up a preview of the next generation of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. Equipped with brand-new Graviton4 processors, the new R8g instances will deliver better price

Analytics

Announcements related to AWS Analytics services with cost optimization opportunities

Introducing highly durable Amazon OpenSearch Service clusters with 30% price/performance improvement

OR1, the OpenSearch Optimized Instance family, delivers up to 30% price-performance improvement over existing instances. You can use OR1 during domain creation only!

Amazon MSK now supports Graviton3-based M7g instances for new provisioned clusters

For newly created clusters only. MSK provisioned clusters running on M7g instances deliver up to 24% price/ performance improvement