AWS Budgets announces support for additional cost metrics and filtering capabilities

AWS Budgets now offers enhanced filtering capabilities and cost metrics, providing greater flexibility in how customers track and manage their cloud costs. Customers can now create budgets for new cost metrics such as net unblended costs and net amortized costs allowing monitoring for costs after discounts. Customers can also exclude dimension values when creating a budget and include existing Cost Explorer charge types such as reservation applied usage, Savings Plan Upfront Fee, and Savings Plan Covered Usage.

These new capabilities enable customers to budget against the actual cost of their applications, teams, or cost centers with support for automated discounts and advanced filtering. For example, customers can now create budgets that incorporate Savings Plans and Reservation discounts, ensuring alignment between budgeted amounts and actual invoiced costs. The new dimension exclusion capabilities allow customers to create more targeted budgets - for instance, a development team could track their project spending by excluding shared enterprise services, or a finance team could monitor regional spending by excluding global services.

These enhancements are available in all AWS Regions, except the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and the China Regions. To learn more about this new feature, AWS Budgets, and how to monitor costs, visit the AWS Budget product page and documentation.