Creating a self-service FinOps portal

We have covered much ground in using many AWS services to build the visibility you need to enable your FinOps practice. First, we looked at AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR) as the dataset to fuel our cost visibility. Then, we looked at AWS Glue to crawl our data and catalog our metadata. After, we looked at Athena as a tool to query our data, and QuickSight to visualize it. Putting all these pieces together does take time, and can take longer to build the processes you need to operationalize these into a FinOps practice. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to deploy all these resources at once and start with a baseline template that you can use to iterate as your FinOps practice matures?

This is where AWS’ Enterprise Dashboard solutions can come in to help remove the complexities in building these solutions and streamline the process of making these dashboards available. AWS provides a series of out-of-the-box dashboard templates that...