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AWS embedded Amazon Q directly into Cost Explorer nine days ago. You can now type plain English questions and the visualisations update automatically. Most coverage has been technical. This is the practitioner's version — the specific prompts to run, in the order to run them, for a complete cost analysis from morning review to executive reporting.

S3 Files launched four days ago. S3 Vectors went GA at re:Invent. Object size limits jumped from 5TB to 50TB. Account-regional namespaces removed a naming constraint that has existed since 2006. AWS has made more changes to S3 in the past five months than in the previous five years. Some of these changes are technical. Several of them have direct cost implications your team may not have modelled yet.

Six years of the FinOps community asking for this. AWS delivered it at re:Invent 2025. The headline says 'up to 35% savings' — the reality is more complicated, more interesting, and more useful than the press release suggests.

RDS Reserved Instances are fundamentally different from EC2 RIs in ways that catch even experienced teams off guard. Here's what goes wrong, why it's harder to fix than you'd expect, and what your options actually are.

From Reserved Instances to rightsizing, here are the five highest-impact strategies to reduce your AWS bill without sacrificing performance.

The FinOps Foundation's framework gives cloud teams a shared language and operating model for managing cloud spend. Here's how to apply it in practice.