See Your Cost Efficiency at a Glance! A New Widget Lands in BCM Dashboards!

Hello, this is Shii-chan! Today's update is a quiet one, but it's the kind of quiet update that actually makes your day-to-day easier: AWS added a new widget that lets you check your cost efficiency at a glance!

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What was announced?

This comes from AWS What's New. AWS Billing and Cost Management (BCM) added a new "Cost Efficiency" widget to BCM Dashboards. You can now view cost efficiency trends right alongside Cost Explorer, Budgets, and your Savings Plans / Reserved Instance coverage and utilization reports.

The story so far

Cost information itself was already available, Cost Explorer, Budgets, Savings Plans, and Reserved Instance reports each had their own screen. But there wasn't a single place to see spending, commitments, and optimization performance together. Tracking efficiency trends meant hopping between multiple tools.

What changes

Just by adding the Cost Efficiency widget to a BCM Dashboard, you get spending, commitments, and optimization performance in one unified view. And there's a lot packed into it!

• Track your efficiency score over time by account, region, or overall
• Adjust the granularity to whatever level matters to your team
• Jump straight to the Cost Optimization Hub console to act on savings recommendations
• Works with dashboard exports, scheduled email reports, and CSV/PDF downloads
• Also available with cross-account dashboard sharing

Wrap-up

• BCM Dashboards now offer a Cost Efficiency widget
• Spending, commitments, and optimization performance are viewable in a single screen
• Available in all AWS commercial Regions at no additional charge

This one's especially useful if your team wants cost visibility and optimization baked right into your everyday workflow!