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Navigating AWS FinOps: Harnessing Cloud Intelligence Dashboards for Strategic Cost Optimization

The Cloud Intelligence Dashboards represent an open-source framework crafted and nurtured by a dedicated community of AWS enthusiasts. These dashboards are designed to deliver actionable insights and scalability for organizations, with a focus on customer satisfaction. The functionalities of these dashboards extend to fostering financial accountability, optimizing costs, monitoring usage goals, implementing governance best practices, and attaining operational excellence across all Well-Architected pillars. It includes multiple dashboards:

  • CUDOS Dashboard
  • Cost Intelligence Dashboard
  • KPI Dashboard
  • TAO Dashboard
  • Compute Optimizer Dashboard
  • Cost Anomaly Dashboard
CUDOS Dashboard

The CUDOS Dashboard offers comprehensive overviews and operational insights, allowing users to delve into resource-specific details. Users can discover automatically generated recommendations for cost optimization and actionable insights within the CUDOS Dashboard. These insights readily apply to FinOps practitioners, Product Owners, and Engineering teams. The dashboard facilitates swift identification of usage spikes and reveals uncertainties in AWS consumption, highlighting specific resources that can be optimized.

Cost Intelligence Dashboard

The Cost Intelligence Dashboard (CID) is a customizable and user-friendly platform designed to establish the groundwork for your personalized cost management and optimization tool. Executives, directors, and individuals responsible for cloud financials within the CFO’s domain will discover the CID to be easily navigable and pertinent to their specific use cases. No or minimal technical expertise or familiarity with AWS Services is necessary to leverage the benefits of CID.

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KPI Dashboard

The Key Performance Indicator (KPI) and Modernization Dashboard facilitate the integration of DevOps and IT infrastructure with Finance and the C-Suite within your organization, promoting more efficient and effective growth on AWS. This dashboard empowers you to establish and monitor modernization and optimization objectives, including metrics such as On-Demand percentage, Spot adoption, and Graviton usage. By empowering each line of business to define and track usage goals and enabling your cloud center of excellence to provide organization-wide recommendations, you can achieve enhanced efficiency and foster quicker innovation on AWS.

TAO Dashboard

The Organizational Trusted Advisor (TAO) Dashboard comprehensively views all potential cost optimization opportunities and automatically identifies idle resources. It also highlights AWS Trusted Advisor risks and flagged resources across the Security, Reliability, and Performance pillars. TAO includes historical trends, enabling you to monitor the outcomes of optimization efforts over time.

Compute Optimizer Dashboard

The Compute Optimizer Dashboard assists your organization in visualizing and tracking right-sizing recommendations provided by AWS Compute Optimizer. These suggestions aid in identifying opportunities for cost savings related to over-provisioned resources, while also highlighting operational risks associated with under-provisioned ones.

Cost Anomaly Dashboard

The Cost Anomaly Dashboard assists you in monitoring and visualizing insights derived from AWS Cost Anomaly Detection.

Architecture

AWS recommend deployment of the CUDOS, KPI, and Cost Intelligence Dashboards in a dedicated account separate from your Management (Payer) Account.

This architecture facilitates the aggregation of Cost and Usage Reports (CURs) from various sources into a single Data Collection Account. This is particularly beneficial if you seek visibility across multiple Management (Payer) Accounts.

Moreover, this aggregation approach proves valuable when access to the Management (Payer) account is unavailable, and there is a need for visibility across multiple Linked Accounts belonging to a single Business Unit.

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