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Demo: FinOps automation with AWS Cost Explorer

Demo: FinOps automation with AWS Cost Explorer

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Demo: FinOps automation with AWS Cost Explorer

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- [Instructor] So in order to understand how FinOps works, it's probably best that we look at a particular FinOps tool. In this case, this is going to be a native tool or something that only works with a specific cloud provider, in this case, Amazon Web Services or AWS, and the tool is called Billing and Cost Management with Internet Cost Explorer. So we'll click into the Internet and Billing and Cost Management system for AWS and we'll look at exactly what it provides us here, and it provides us with some helpful information. First and foremost, a cost summary. It allows us to look at the month to date costs. It allows us to look at the total false forecasted cost for the current month or what we're likely to pay based on our current spending patterns. And it can look at last month's cost for the same time period and also last month's total cost. And you can even view your entire bill. You can do things like cost monitor for…

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