Starting today, you can access detailed information regarding your budgets’ performance from the recently-introduced budget detail pages within AWS Budgets. Using the new budgets history functionality, you can easily analyze your budget’s performance over the past 12 months by comparing your budgeted amount to your actuals (i.e., your budget variance). This allows you to identify which areas of your business have under- or over-performed based on their budgets, making it easy to adjust your forecasts to improve the accuracy of your budgets or perform further analysis using AWS Cost Explorer. For example, you can track the actual monthly spend for your ‘Game Development Team’ account relative to their monthly budget over the last 12 months and take action based on your findings. Please note that budgets history information can also be accessed programmatically via the AWS Budgets API.