Category: Launch

Today, AWS announces the public preview of AWS FinOps Agent, an agentic AI solution that investigates cost anomalies to root cause and answers cost questions for engineers across your organization, in the tools they already use. FinOps, short for financial operations, brings finance, engineering, and business teams together to maximize the business value of cloud […]

Today, we are introducing AI-powered cost investigation, a new capability in AWS Cost Anomaly Detection (CAD) and the AWS FinOps Agent. When a cost anomaly fires, you can now get a plain-language root cause analysis in minutes and continue the investigation conversationally to drill into specific resources or identities, compare to past anomalies, or set the direction of […]

In this post, we are introducing the credits detail page in the AWS Billing and Cost Management console with public API and Amazon Q integration, providing customers one place to see and control their credits. Managing AWS credits at scale is hard. As organizations grow on AWS, credits can accumulate from multiple programs. Tracking balances, […]

As your AWS environment grows, some resources keep running after they’re no longer in use. A database from a pilot project that ended, or a WorkSpace for a contractor who left, is easy to miss across hundreds of resources. Today, AWS Compute Optimizer is doubling its idle resource detection coverage with six new services, helping […]

Starting today, you can specify a Savings Plans coverage percentage of your On-Demand spend and receive the hourly commitment needed to achieve that level directly in the Savings Plans Purchase Analyzer in the AWS Billing and Cost Management Console. With Target Coverage, you can model different coverage scenarios, exclude expiring Savings Plans to plan for […]

We’re excited to announce intelligent cost explanations in AWS Cost Explorer, powered by Amazon Q Developer. Click the ‘Analyze with Amazon Q’ button on any cost report to instantly receive detailed explanations covering your spending patterns, cost drivers, and anomalies, along with guidance to discover optimization opportunities through follow-up questions, all based on your exact […]

Since launching the Cost Efficiency metric at re:Invent 2025, we keep hearing from our customers: “How do I compare to my peers?” To answer it, we analyzed optimization patterns across more than 71,000 anonymized, opted-in AWS customers over the most recent quarter. Savings Plans coverage is the foundation of any cost optimization strategy, but it’s just one piece of the puzzle. The data shows our most efficient customers go […]

We’re excited to engage with the FinOps community at FinOps X 2026 in San Diego, June 8-11. If you’re looking to spend quality time with the AWS team, here’s where you can find us: Monday June 8th The AWS Frugal Architect GameDay: Hands-on challenges for applying FinOps principles Bring your laptop and dive into a […]

Another year has flown by. As we wrap up another exciting AWS re:Invent, I’m excited to share the latest enhancements in AWS Cloud Financial Management (CFM) space. This year’s announcements reflect our commitment to providing comprehensive solutions across the four CFM pillars: track and allocate, govern and operate, forecast and plan, and optimize and save. We’ve also made significant improvements in AI for CFM, which impacts all four CFM pillars.

Network infrastructure resources like NAT Gateways represent a substantial portion of cloud spending, yet optimizing these costs presents unique challenges. Unlike compute resources, NAT Gateways often play critical roles in high availability and disaster recovery architectures, making it difficult to confidently identify which ones are truly unused versus those serving as disaster recovery or backup components. Starting today, AWS Compute Optimizer expands its idle resource detection capabilities to include NAT Gateways. Building on our recent launch of idle recommendations for compute, storage, and database resources, you can now identify and clean up unused NAT Gateway resources to drive additional cost savings while maintaining application reliability.