FinOps in Practice: Managing AWS Costs at Scale

Greetings, AWS Enthusiasts!

Join us for an engaging AWS Meetup focused on Cost Optimization & FinOps, where we’ll explore strategies, methods, and tips on managing and distributing costs among multiple applications. In this meetup, we are welcoming the Mondelez Cloud Engineering team for the fourth and final session of the series. This event features two insightful presentations:

Presentation 1: Managing AWS Costs at Scale
Cloud isn’t cheap — but it can be efficient and predictable. In this session, the Mondelez Cloud Engineering team, Iosif Ismail, and Naim Gkamberlo will share how they scale cost optimization across hundreds of AWS accounts using automation, alerts, and accountability.
Learn how they forecast usage, automate budget creation via AWS AFT, and use dashboards to drive visibility and ownership. Cost-per-unit metrics, anomaly detection, and micro-segmentation enable teams to spend wisely—not just less.
You’ll walk away with strategies to:

• Forecast and align spend with business goals.
• Achieve cost transparency across environments.
• Distribute costs accurately to business units.
• Empower owners to monitor, analyze, and take control of their budgets

Presentation 2: Showcasing AWS Athena and CUR Management
Unlock the full potential of your AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR) with AWS Athena. In this session, Konstantinos Siaterlis will present how to set up, query, and manage CUR data using Athena for scalable, cost-effective analysis.
You'll see how to turn raw billing data into actionable insights, filter costs by service, account, or tag, and build queries that help track usage patterns and optimize spend completely serverless.

What You'll Learn:

• How to automate budget creation and cost estimation across AWS accounts
• Techniques to forecast cloud usage and align spend with business goals
• How to query and analyze AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR) using Athena
• Ways to gain cost transparency through dashboards, segmentation, and tagging
• Best practices for alerting, anomaly detection, and enabling accountability across teams

Why Attend?

• Gain practical insights from a real enterprise use case.
• Learn how to scale FinOps practices using AWS-native tools.
• See how to drive accountability with dashboards and alerts.

Meetup Outline
18:00 - 18:20 Warm Welcome
18:20 - 19:10 Presentation 1
19:10 - 19:15 Short Break
19:15 - 20:05 Presentation 2?
20:05+ Networking & Discussions

We are looking forward to meeting everyone in person!
NOTE: Make sure you come to the correct location! We're trying out a new venue!

Sponsors
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