Honest Review for AWS Cost Explorer
December 09, 2025
Honest Review for AWS Cost Explorer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with AWS Cost Explorer
AWS Cost Explorer help us to gain visibility and control our cloud spending. It helps us analyze historical costs, track usage patterns, and identify trends across services, accounts, and teams. Cost Explorer also is extensively used for forecasting future expenses, setting budgets, and creating alerts to prevent overspending. For FinOps teams, it’s an essential tool for optimizing cloud resources, improving financial accountability, and driving cost efficiency across our organization.
Pros
- Cost management
- Cost Recommendations
- Forecast
- Usage
Cons
- granular data such as Kubernetes usage, cost and optimization
- spot recommendations
- granular data such as AI usage, cost and optimization
- Helped to meet the saving targets
- Better transparency and financial accentuality
- Detect issues
It is pretty comparable. We selected Cloudability, Cubecost and AWS Cost Explorer. It provides more comprehensive predictivity.
Do you think AWS Cost Explorer delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with AWS Cost Explorer's feature set?
Yes
Did AWS Cost Explorer live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of AWS Cost Explorer go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy AWS Cost Explorer again?
Yes
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