AWS FinOps: Best of 2019
Cloud Financial Management (CFM) and FinOps related announcements in 2019 (out of 1,843 year to date):
The "[Major]" emphasis is my own (subjective) view.
SEE - Measurement & accountability
AWS Step Functions Now Supports Resource Tagging 01/07/2019
Introducing Normalized Units Information for Amazon EC2 Reservations in AWS Cost Explorer 02/05/2019
Amazon EFS Now Supports Tag-on-Create 02/19/2019
Amazon Athena Now Supports Resource Tagging 02/25/2019
AWS Elemental MediaPackage Now Supports Resource Tagging 03/04/2019
Resource Groups Tagging API Supports Additional AWS Services 02/28/2019
Tag-on Create and Tag-Based IAM Application for Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose 03/11/2019
AWS Config Now Supports Tagging of AWS Config Resources 03/14/2019
AWS Glue now supports resource tagging 03/20/2019
Amazon Comprehend now supports resource tagging 04/04/2019
Amazon FreeRTOS Now Supports Resource Tagging 04/16/2019
AWS AppSync Now Supports Tagging GraphQL APIs 04/25/2019
Now you can tag Amazon DynamoDB tables when you create them 04/26/2019
Amazon SNS Adds Support for Cost Allocation Tags 05/16/2019
AWS Organizations Now Supports Tagging and Untagging of AWS Accounts 06/06/2019
AWS CodeCommit Now Supports Resource Tagging 07/02/2019
AWS Resource Groups and AWS Resource Groups Tag Editor Now Supports Additional AWS Resources 07/15/2019
Amazon EC2 Now Supports Tagging Launch Templates on Creation 07/24/2019
Amazon SQS Now Supports Tag-on-Create 08/22/2019
Amazon EKS Supports Cluster Tagging 09/16/2019
Amazon RDS Enables Detailed Backup Storage Billing 10/10/2019
Amazon Aurora Supports Cost Allocation Tags for Aurora Storage 10/23/2019
Amazon S3 Inventory now reports the Intelligent-tiering access tier for objects 11/01/2019
[MAJOR] AWS Cost Explorer now supports Hourly and Resource Level Granularity 11/13/2019
[MAJOR] Introducing AWS Cost Categories 11/25/2019
[MAJOR] AWS launches Tag Policies 11/26/2019
Amazon Elastic Inference now supports resource tagging 11/26/2019
SAVE - Cost optimization
Announcing AWS Fargate Price Reduction By Up To 50% 01/07/2019
Amazon EFS Introduces Lower Cost Storage Class 02/13/2019
Amazon RDS now supports per-second billing 04/25/2019
Amazon Neptune Now Supports Per Second Billing 05/09/2019
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports per-second billing 05/09/2019
Announcing AWS Elemental MediaPackage Price Reduction in All Regions 05/20/2019
Amazon RDS now supports Storage Auto Scaling 06/20/2019
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Now Supports Stopping and Starting Clusters 07/02/2019
Optimize Cost with Amazon EFS Infrequent Access Lifecycle Management 07/09/2019
[MAJOR] Introducing Amazon EC2 Resource Optimization Recommendations 07/23/2019
Amazon EC2 Spot Now Available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 07/25/2019
New Capacity-Optimized Allocation Strategy for Provisioning Amazon EC2 Spot Instances 08/12/2019
Announcing Amazon EFS price reduction for Infrequent Access storage 09/04/2019
[MAJOR] Introducing Savings Plans 11/06/2019
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Now Supports Instance Weighting 11/20/2019
AWS DataSync announces a 68% price reduction 11/20/2019
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Adds Support for Amazon EC2 Spot Instances 11/25/2019
AWS launches Fargate Spot, save up to 70% for fault tolerant applications 12/03/2019
[MAJOR] Introducing AWS Compute Optimizer 12/03/2019
Amazon ECS Cluster Auto Scaling Now Available 12/03/2019
PLAN - Planning & forecasting
AWS Budgets now Supports Variable Budget Targets for Cost and Usage Budgets 05/22/2019
[MAJOR] Introducing AWS Budgets Reports 07/09/2019
AWS Cost Explorer now Supports Usage-Based Forecasts 07/18/2019
Amazon EC2 Fleet Now Lets You Set A Maximum Price For A Fleet Of Instances 08/08/2019
Amazon Forecast Now Generally Available 08/22/2019
AWS Service Catalog Announces Budget Visibility 09/12/2019
AWS Cost Explorer monthly forecasts now include Support costs 11/20/2019
RUN - Cloud financial operations
AWS Config adds support for AWS Service Catalog 01/11/2019
AWS Step Functions Adds Tag-Based Permissions 03/05/2019
Service control policies in AWS Organizations enable fine-grained permission controls 03/25/2019
You can now use resource level policies for Amazon CloudWatch Alarms 04/02/2019
AWS Elastic Beanstalk extends Tag-Based Permissions 04/05/2019
AWS Service Catalog Announces Tag Updating 04/25/2019
Amazon MQ Now Supports Resource-Level and Tag-Based Permissions 04/29/2019
[MAJOR] Reservation Expiration Alerts Now Available in AWS Cost Explorer 05/07/2019
AWS Migration Hub now provides right-sized Amazon EC2 instance recommendations 05/14/2019
Amazon API Gateway Now Supports Tag-Based Access Control and Tags on Additional Resources 05/23/2019
Announcing Tag-Based Access Control for AWS CloudFormation 05/30/2019
[MAJOR] AWS Control Tower is now generally available 06/24/2019
Amazon ECS now supports additional resource-level permissions and tag-based access controls 06/27/2019
AWS Storage Gateway now supports tag-on-create and tag-based access control 08/13/2019
Use AWS Config Rules to Automatically Remediate Non-compliant Resources 09/05/2019
Amazon ECS supports Automated Draining for Spot Instances running ECS Services 09/27/2019
[MAJOR] Queuing Purchases of EC2 RIs 10/04/2019
AWS supports Automated Draining for Spot Instance Nodes on Kubernetes 11/07/2019
Data Lifecycle Manager now supports adding tags to the lifecycle policy 11/13/2019
Simplify cloud provisioning with AWS Service Catalog Connector for Jira Service Desk 11/22/2019