AWS FinOps Architecture
End-to-end cloud financial management framework with 5 integrated layers
Layer 1: Cost & Usage Data Collection
AWS Cost & Usage Report (CUR)
AWS Cost Explorer
AWS Billing & Cost Management
AWS Cost Allocation Tags
Captures granular billing data at the resource level with hourly/daily granularity. CUR provides the most detailed cost dataset; Cost Explorer enables interactive analysis.
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Layer 2: Data Lake & Analytics Layer
Amazon S3 (CUR Storage)
AWS Glue Catalog
Amazon Athena
Amazon QuickSight
CUR data stored in S3, cataloged by Glue, queried via Athena for custom analysis. QuickSight provides interactive BI dashboards for stakeholder reporting.
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Layer 3: FinOps Intelligence Layer
AWS Cost Anomaly Detection
AWS Cost Optimization Hub
AWS Compute Optimizer
AWS Trusted Advisor
Savings Plans & RI Recommendations
AWS FinOps Agent
AI/ML-powered services that detect anomalies, surface optimization opportunities, recommend rightsizing, and provide natural language cost inquiry via FinOps Agent.
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Layer 4: Reporting, Governance & Forecasting
AWS Budgets
Chargeback / Showback Dashboards
Business Unit Cost Reports
Forecasting & Trend Analysis
Budgets enforce spending limits with automated alerts. Chargeback enables cost attribution to teams. Forecasting uses ML to predict future spend patterns.
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Layer 5: Agentic Automation & Remediation
Amazon Bedrock + AWS FinOps Agent
AWS EventBridge
AWS Lambda
Jira / Slack Integration
AI-powered automation: FinOps Agent investigates anomalies, generates reports, creates Jira tickets for optimization work. EventBridge triggers Lambda for event-driven responses.