AWS re:Invent 2025 - Amazon's finops: Cloud cost lessons from a global e-commerce giant (AMZ308)

Watch	Topic	Details
YouTube	Building on AWS Billing and Cost Management Services	Transitioning from custom financial reporting to AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR) and other AWS billing and cost management services. Moving from monthly and account-level cost visualization to ARN and hourly grain. Democratizing cost data across all teams to enable self-service cost analysis and real-time decision-making. Deploying organization-wide tagging strategies for better fine-grain cost controls. Integrating with AWS features like Compute Optimizer and Cost Optimization Hub for efficiency opportunities. Leveraging AWS Organizations for consistent controls and aggregated tool sets across all account footprints.
YouTube	Driving Efficiency Through Business-Aligned Mechanisms	Combining granular costs from CUR with business metrics that teams care about. Integrating business context, including accounts and tag-based cost allocation, investment tracking, and automated ROI analysis. Using the AWS Cloud Intelligence Dashboard (CID) to provide actionable insights and optimization opportunities. Creating role-specific views for in-depth service analysis by teams. Building mechanisms to track business-specific efficiency and monitor resource utilization against centrally agreed-upon ideals. Developing a metric called the 'credit score' to measure resource efficiency across various services.
YouTube	Scaling FinOps Practice Through Intelligent Automation	Transforming manual and reactive processes into a self-improving system through AWS services and automated workflows. Starting with comprehensive usage of trends, budget variance, and capacity requirements. Automating notifications and responses for optimization opportunities while maintaining controls over complex decisions. Building trust through transparency by logging and tracking every action, whether automated or manual. Gradually automating well-understood processes like financial planning and capacity management. Elevating human roles from routine analysis to strategic decision-making.

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Get an insider's view of FinOps at Amazon from the AWS Cloud Economics team. Drawing from experience supporting thousands of internal teams, we'll share battle-tested strategies for building a cost-aware culture and scaling cloud financial management. Learn how Amazon approaches cost allocation, leverages AWS tools, and drives optimization across its complex enterprise. You'll leave with practical approaches and proven best practices that can be applied to organizations of any size.

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