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AWS FinOps Simplified

You're reading from   AWS FinOps Simplified Eliminate cloud waste through practical FinOps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803247236
Length 292 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Peter Chung Peter Chung
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: FinOps Foundation 2. Part 1: Managing Your AWS Inventory FREE CHAPTER
3. Chapter 2: Establishing the Right Account Structure 4. Chapter 3: Managing Inventory 5. Chapter 4: Planning and Metrics Tracking 6. Chapter 5: Governing Cost and Usage 7. Part 2: Optimizing Your AWS Resources
8. Chapter 6: Optimizing Compute 9. Chapter 7: Optimizing Storage 10. Chapter 8: Optimizing Networking 11. Chapter 9: Optimizing Cloud-Native Environments 12. Part 3: Operationalizing FinOps
13. Chapter 10: Data-Driven FinOps 14. Chapter 11: Driving FinOps Autonomously 15. Chapter 12: Management Functions 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Conducting billing and administrative tasks

In this section, we’ll learn about the billing and administrative tasks a FinOps team may need to conduct or partner with the finance department to complete. These tasks include managing cost and usage data through the AWS Billing Console. We’ll learn about the AWS Billing Conductor, how to manage Free Tier usage, creating purchase orders, and leveraging private pricing to optimize AWS spending.

Simplifying billing with AWS Billing Conductor

The AWS Billing Conductor service supports your showback and chargeback efforts. You can customize your monthly billing data so that it represents localized versions of your AWS bill. Many AWS customers group their accounts into AWS Organizations because of the operational and financial benefits gained by grouping accounts into a single entity. However, we already know that by organizing your AWS accounts into one AWS Organization, you receive one bill (see Chapter 2, Establishing...

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