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...