Awesome Cloud Cost Control 
Awesome ways to control the cost of cloud.
Contents
- Cloud Cost Management Tools and Services
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Oracle Cloud
- MultiCloud
- Cloud Cost Management Practices
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Misc
Cloud Cost Management Tools and Services
AWS
AWS Cost Calculators
AWS Cloud Financial Management Services
- Docs
- Services
- Solutions
- Misc
AWS Cloud Reporting Tools
Azure
Azure Cost Calculators
- Azure Calculator by NetApp
- Azure Pricing Calculator by Microsoft
- Azure Cloud Cost Estimator by Terraform
Azure Cloud Financial Management Services
- Docs
- Services
GCP
GCP Cost Calculators
GCP Cloud Financial Management Services
- Docs
- Services
Oracle Cloud
Oracle Cloud Cost Calculators
Oracle Cloud Financial Management Services
- Docs
- Services
MultiCloud
MultiCloud Financial Management & Governance
- Cloud Custodian
- Mist Cloud Management Platform
- Koku
- Spot by NetApp (Previously CloudCheckr)
- CloudAdmin
- Flexera
- Apptio by IBM
- Densify
- nOps
MultiCloud Reporting Tools
Cloud Cost Management Practices
AWS
AWS Guides
- AWS Well-Architected Framework: Management and Governance Lens
- AWS Well-Architected Framework: Cloud Financial Management
- AWS Well-Architected Framework: Cost Optimization Pillar
- Tagging Best Practices: Implement an Effective AWS Resource Tagging Strategy
AWS Blogs
AWS Articles
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Series
- Cost Allocation Series
- Cost Allocation Blog Series #1: Cost Allocation Basics That You Need to Know
- Cost Allocation Blog Series #2: AWS-Generated vs. User-Defined Cost Allocation Tag
- Cost Allocation Blog Series #3: Enforce and Validate AWS Resource Tags
- Cost Allocation Blog Series #4: Visualize Data Transfer Costs with Cost and Usage Reports, Athena, and QuickSight
- Cost Allocation Blog Series #5: Building an AWS cost allocation strategy with Apptio Cloudability
- Cost Control Series
- Cost Allocation Series
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2021
- Trends Dashboard with AWS Cost and Usage Reports, Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight
- Introducing AWS Application Cost Profiler, offering user-based cost data of shared AWS resources
- Upgrade Amazon Elasticsearch Service Domains to the Latest Instance Types to Optimize Your Costs
- Cost Tagging and Reporting with AWS Organizations
- How unit metrics help create alignment between business functions
- Discovering and Deleting Incomplete Multipart Uploads to Lower Amazon S3 Costs
- Unit metrics in practice – lessons learned
- Selecting a unit metric to support your business
- Update: Amazon ECS Product Name Change in the AWS Billing and Cost Management
- Cost Reporting Based on AWS Organizations Account ID Tags
- What is a unit metric?
- Unit Metric – The Touchstone of your IT Planning and Evaluation
- Finding savings from 2020 re:Invent announcements
- How to estimate your AWS WAF and AWS Shield Advanced cost?
- A Conversation with Duda’s DevOps team
- We want to hear from you!
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2020
- Announcing General Availability of AWS Cost Anomaly Detection
- Echoing Andy’s AWS re:Invent 2020 Keynote for Technology Financial Management Success
- Cost Control Blog Series #2: Automate Cost Control using AWS Service Catalog and AWS Budgets
- Take a sneak peek at AWS re:Invent 2020 Cloud Financial Management Sessions
- Launch: Savings Plans Expiration and Queued Alerts now available in AWS Cost Management
- Launch: AWS Marketplace Vendor Metered Tagging
- Adapting procurement to payment (P2P) with AWS Purchase Order Management
- Cost Control Blog Series #1: Good intentions don’t work, but cost control mechanisms do!
- AWS Well-Architected Cost Optimization Labs Updated
- Launch: AWS Budgets Actions
- Cost Allocation Blog Series #5: Building an AWS cost allocation strategy with Apptio Cloudability
- Preview: Anomaly Detection and alerting now available in AWS Cost Management
- Cost Allocation Blog Series #4: Visualize Data Transfer Costs with Cost and Usage Reports, Athena, and QuickSight
- Launch: Daily Cost and Usage Budgets
- Cost Allocation Blog Series #3: Enforce and Validate AWS Resource Tags
- Cost Allocation Blog Series #2: AWS-Generated vs. User-Defined Cost Allocation Tag
- Cost Allocation Blog Series #1: Cost Allocation Basics That You Need to Know
- Update: Elastic Load Balancing Code Change
- Getting Started with AWS Purchase Order Management
- Cost Explorer Forecasting API Improvement
- Launch: Cloud Financial Management services available in China
- What’s New in the AWS Well-Architected Cost Optimization Pillar
- How to build a chargeback/showback model for Savings Plans using the CUR
- Launch: Cost Management on AWS Console Mobile Application
- Getting Started: Tracking AWS Cost Management Metrics
- Leveraging the CFM lever to move your business world
- Organize your cost and usage data with AWS Cost Categories
- AWS Cost Explorer Rightsizing Recommendations Integrates with AWS Compute Optimizer
- Launch: Savings Plans Recommendations for Member (Linked) Accounts
- Cost Considerations for Global Deployments
- Manage your Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) costs using AWS Budgets
- Launch: Compute Savings Plans now cover AWS Lambda Usage
- Public Beta: AWS Cost Categories
- Customer Obsession: AWS Cost & Usage Report Technical Documentation
- Getting Started with AWS Savings Plans
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2019
- Back to Basics: Getting Started with AWS Billing Console
- Launch: Controlling AWS CloudTrail Costs Using AWS KMS Event Filtering
- Cost Management at re:Invent: Key Takeaways
- Cost Management at re:Invent: Savings Plans, Cost Categories, and more!
- Student Focus: Keeping an Eye on Your AWS Costs and Usage
- Understanding your AWS Cost Datasets: A Cheat Sheet
- Cloud Economics Sessions at AWS re:Invent 2019
- Tips and Tricks for Exploring your Data in AWS Cost Explorer
- Launch: AWS Service Catalog Integration with AWS Budgets
- Launch: AWS Budgets Integration with AWS Chatbot
- Monitoring your AWS Marketplace Costs and Usage
- Launch: Resource Optimization Recommendations
- Launch: Usage-Based Forecasting now Available in AWS Cost Explorer
- Launch: AWS Budgets Reports
- Querying your AWS Cost and Usage Report using Amazon Athena
- Launch: Instance Family Coverage Budgets
- A Quick Overview of AWS Payment Methods
- Launch: Variable Budget Targets for Cost and Usage Budgets
- Getting Started with AWS Cost Explorer
- Launch: Reservation Expiration Alerts
- A Beginner’s Guide to AWS Cost Management
- Hello, World! Welcome to the AWS Cost Management Blog.
AWS Courses
Azure
Azure Courses
- ACloudGuru
GCP
GCP Courses
- ACloudGuru
- Coursera
Misc
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