Category: Integration & Automation

AWS introduced the FinOps Agent (currently in public preview) at FinOps X 2026. FinOps automation is still relatively new, and given the sensitivity around cloud and AI cost management, it’s understandable if you’re hesitant to go all-in on autonomous FinOps right away. In this post, we’ll share our mental model for FinOps automation, the four tiers of automation you can follow, and the four built-in trust levers you can rely on to stay in control as automation scales.

Starting today, AWS Compute Optimizer introduces a new automation feature that streamlines how you optimize Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes. Instead of dedicating valuable engineering hours to optimization tasks, you can now create automation rules that continuously clean up unattached volumes and upgrade volume types based on Compute Optimizer’s data-driven recommendations, freeing your teams […]

This blog shows how you can automatically propagate account-level tags to AWS resources created by AWS Service Catalog. Service Catalog allows sharing of portfolios across AWS accounts and provides a TagOption library to manage tags on provisioned AWS resources. Resource tagging varies by account, so it is not part of the portfolio product configurations. We designed the solution to reduce the burden on users to a minimum, while also adopting cloud best practices such as infrastructure automation.