Awesome Cloud Cost Control

Awesome ways to control the cost of cloud.

Contents

• Cloud Cost Management Tools and Services
  • AWS
    • AWS Cost Calculators
    • AWS Cloud Financial Management Services
    • AWS Cloud Reporting Tools
  • Azure
    • Azure Cost Calculators
    • Azure Cloud Financial Management Services
  • GCP
    • GCP Cost Calculators
    • GCP Cloud Financial Management Services
  • Oracle Cloud
    • Oracle Cloud Cost Calculators
    • Oracle Cloud Financial Management Services
  • MultiCloud
    • MultiCloud Governance
    • MultiCloud Reporting Tools
• Cloud Cost Management Practices
  • AWS
    • AWS Guides
    • AWS Blogs
    • AWS Articles
    • AWS Courses
  • Azure
    • Azure Courses
  • GCP
    • GCP Courses
• Misc

Cloud Cost Management Tools and Services

AWS

AWS Cost Calculators

• AWS Pricing Calculator by AWS
• AWS Cloud Cost Estimator by Terraform

AWS Cloud Financial Management Services

• Docs
  • AWS Application Cost Profiler
  • AWS Billing & Cost Management
  • AWS Pricing Calculator
  • AWS Savings Plans
• Services
  • AWS Cost Explorer
  • AWS Budgets
  • AWS Cost & Usage Report
  • AWS Cost Categories
  • AWS Cost Anomaly Detection
  • AWS Reserved Instance Reporting
  • AWS Purchase Order Management
  • AWS Application Cost Profiler
• Solutions
  • AWS Strategic IT Planning & Evaluation
  • AWS Manage Billing and Control Cost
  • AWS Track and allocate your IT Costs
  • AWS Optimize and Save your IT costs
• Misc
  • AWS Cost Management Resources
  • AWS Cost Management FAQ

AWS Cloud Reporting Tools

• AWS Thrifty Mod

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

• Google Cloud Pricing Calculator by Google
• Google Cloud Cost Estimator by Terraform

GCP Cloud Financial Management Services

• Docs
  • GCP Cost Management
• Services

Oracle Cloud

Oracle Cloud Cost Calculators

• Oracle Cloud Cost Estimator by Oracle

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 Keeper
• Infra Cost

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 Cost Management Blog

AWS Articles

• 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 Control Blog Series #1: Good intentions don’t work, but cost control mechanisms do!
    • Cost Control Blog Series #2: Automate Cost Control using AWS Service Catalog and AWS Budgets

• 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!

• 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

• 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

• ACloudGuru
  • AWS Business Essentials
  • AWS Cost Optimization Deep Dive

Azure

Azure Courses

• ACloudGuru
  • Cost Control on Azure

GCP

GCP Courses

• ACloudGuru
  • Cost Control on GCP
• Coursera
  • Optimizing Your Google Cloud Costs

Misc

• Awesome Cloud Cost Control
• Awesome Cloud Security

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