Deep Dive - Cost and Usage with QuickSight: 2024 Amazon QuickSight Learning Series

What's new in Cost and Usage Dashboards? Do you want to customize your Dashboards? If you are curious about CID (Cloud Intelligence Dashboards) or a seasoned veteran, this session is for you. We will cover what's new and do a deep dive into the top requested customizations with a live demo.

Technical level: 300-400
Pre-requisites: Experience with handling several types of data sources, QuickSight authoring experience and deep knowledge of your company's data types.

Resources:

Chapters:
00:00 Session introduction
00:30 Agenda overview
01:40 The value of FinOps
02:30 Cloud cost as an operational metric
03:10 Cloud cost is a non-functional requirement
04:19 Defining FinOps
06:02 FinOps enables cost-aware culture
06:56 FinOps landscape on AWS
09:47 Cloud Intelligence Dashboards (CID) overview
11:09 CID architecture
12:26 CID for foundational and advanced users
14:18 CID additional dashboard uses
14:51 Getting to a cost-aware culture
16:26 CID Customer success stories
17:48 Getting started resources for CID
18:18 Demo: Graviton opportunities dashboard
19:25 Demo: Access dashboards in the workshop studio
19:52 Demo: Existing Amazon EC2 Graviton usage dashboard
21:28 Demo: AWS news feed summary dashboard
22:38 Demo: AWS health events dashboard
24:28 Demo: FOCUS dashboard
26:14 Common customizations of dashboards
27:50 Demo: Modifying QuickSight dashboards for customizations
29:08 Demo: Creating a custom dashboard and report quickly with Amazon Q
36:36 Costs of running the CID framework