AWS Cost Explorer

AWS Cost Explorer's interface is used to visualize, understand, and manage AWS costs and usage over time. Users can get custom reports that analyze cost and usage data, and analyze data at a high level (for example, total costs and usage across all accounts), or dive deeper into cost and usage data to identify trends, pinpoint cost drivers, and detect anomalies.

Features

• Cost and Usage Visualization - AWS Cost Explorer provides users with visual representation of their AWS cost and usage over time, using graphs and tables. Visualization simplifies analysis of complex cost and usage data, facilitating quick insights and informed decisions
• Filter and Group - Data can be filtered and grouped by a variety of dimensions. For example, daily/monthly cost grouped by member accounts can be viewed to understand who is driving the most cost.
• Cost and Usage Forecasting - AWS Cost Explorer can predict future costs and usage based on historical and current cost and usage pattern. This helps organizations plan and budget for upcoming expenses.
• Saved Reports - Cost Explorer provides preconfigured reports to monitor monthly cost by service, monthly cost by linked account, monthly EC2 running hours costs and usage, Daily costs, and AWS Marketplace costs. Additionally, customers can save custom Cost Explorer reports along with their filters and groupings for easy access.
• Multi-year history - Users can perform multi-year historical data analysis at monthly granularity using up to 38 months of history and understand patterns and year-over-year changes in their AWS cost and usage.
• Hourly granularity - Cost Explorer allows customers to understand their spend for the past 14 days at the most granular hourly level. Hourly cost and usage can be used to determine appropriate SP/RI commitment or understand peak hour usage.
• Resource level granularity - Cost Explorer allows customers to monitor their AWS cost and usage at a resource level to identify cost drivers. Cost Explorer supports resource level data for all services at daily granularity and EC2 resource level data at hourly granularity. Customers can enable this additional data for the past 14 days.
• Downloadable CE viewable in csv format - Filtered CE view in CSV file format for offline access as well as easy sharing with other team members.
• API access - AWS Cost Explorer provides programmatic access to all features through API, enabling automation of Cost Management tasks.

Cost Explorer supports hourly granularity looking back over 14 days for two features: 1) cost and usage data for all services without resource level details and 2) EC2 resource level data. Cost Explorer offers hourly granularity at a daily charge of $0.00000033 per usage record (which translates to $0.01 per 1,000 usage records monthly). Usage record corresponds to a line item with a specific resource and usage type. For example, one EC2 instance running for 24 hours will generate 24 distinct usage records a day at the hourly granularity.