Simplifying AWS Spending for Managed Service Customers with FinOps Center and Amazon Q in QuickSight

October 15, 2024

Ironside is a data, analytics, and AI consulting and technology implementation company. We work with clients to understand their business objectives and day-to-day challenges, then employ our deep expertise in data strategy, architecture and engineering, integration, business intelligence, AI, and generative AI. We create technical solutions and practical approaches designed to drive smarter, data-driven decisions across a company and help it move further and faster toward its business goals.

For their AWS Customers, they provide Manage Services to run their Data, Analytics, and AI solutions. They and their customers were looking for a solution that would help them understand and allocate their AWS Spending to their Business organization that both assisted with Cost Savings but also simplify the complex world of CFM. With the new capabilities of integrated Amazon Q in QuickSight, FinOps Center users can ask any question about their spending and receive a multi-visual response integrated into their web experience.

“Our customers’ Business Teams want to be actively engaged in their spending not just wait for their bill to show up. FinOps Center provides the transparency into their spending in simple business terminology, with processes they understand, and there is predictability in their AWS investments.”

Tim Kreytek CEO

As part of their Managed Service offering, Ironside onboards their customers’ business teams to FinOps Center and either replaces or provides the foundation for their Weekly meetings to address all technical and business issues. With the new Cloud Optimization Hub integration, the business teams work to approve the Recommendation that the Ironside engineering team then implements.