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Planning and evaluating Improve planning to create accurate forecasting of variable usage. AWS Cloud Operations helps companies optimize their financial management by adapting traditional processes to a cloud-ready environment: For us, the ability to forecast our expenditure without worrying about unexpected bills is a huge relief. The AWS Cost Explorer tells us exactly where our money is going and what we can do to reduce costs further." Dean Jezard, CTO and Co-Founder, Tigerspike " Managing and controlling Centralize billing, automate cost governance, and streamline procure-to-pay process. Securing executive sponsorship and establishing a three- way partnership between Finance, Technology Groups, and IT was critical to our cost management efforts." Sveta Shandilya, Head of IT Planning, Rubrik " Organizing and reporting Understand and track cost and usage in a way that makes sense for the business. Using the AWS Cost & Usage Report and our own analytics, we provided more transparency around cloud spend. Our notifications definitely helped create more cost-aware consumption." Clayton Myers, VP of Technology, MicroStrategy " Optimizing and saving Continuously optimize spend with tailored savings recommendations. After going live, we started monitoring the utilization of our resources and fine-tuned the infrastructure sizing. This resulted in an additional 20 percent reduction in our initially provisioned infrastructure versus what we forecasted. This was simply not possible in our on- premise environment." Ankur Jalpota, Global Head, Wipro " 12