
Strategic Blue leverages Amazon QuickSight and AWS Cost and Usage Reports with Cloud Intelligence Dashboards to help customers visualize and optimize their AWS spending, resulting in millions in savings and improved FinOps conversations.


<div><p>This article describes how Strategic Blue uses Amazon QuickSight and AWS Cost and Usage Reports to help customers optimize cloud spending and save millions.</p><ul><li>Strategic Blue uses commodity trading approach to purchase AWS commitments of varying lengths</li><li>Challenge: CUR data has hundreds of columns and millions of rows, difficult to visualize</li><li>Solution: Deployed Cloud Intelligence Dashboards CUDOS dashboard via QuickSight</li><li>Embedded dashboards into portal with row-level security and SSO integration</li><li>Customers see only their own cost and usage data automatically upon onboarding</li><li>Results: 27% increase in positive feedback, 31% fewer support tickets</li><li>Future plans: Embed additional dashboards like KPI and Trusted Advisor Organizational</li></ul><p>Strategic Blue leverages QuickSight's embedding and security features to scale cost visibility dashboards to all customers, enabling better FinOps conversations and cost optimization opportunities.</p></div>


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