Reduce AWS Cost Explorer costs with these tips
AWS Cost Explorer cost saving tips
Optimize your AWS Cost Explorer costs with these tips
Analyze Cost Reports
Go through your cost and usage reports regularly. Identify and optimize costs by stopping, resizing or deleting idle or underutilized resources like EC2 instances, EBS volumes, Lambda functions.
Use Cost Explorer Tools
Use the filtering and grouping capabilities of Cost Explorer to go deeper into your data. Find cost optimization opportunities by focusing efforts efficiently across accounts, regions, resource types and tags.
Share Custom Reports
Create and share custom reports through Cost Explorer to collaborate with stakeholders. This can unearth more optimization opportunities like consolidating accounts, optimizing reserved instances or savings plans usage.
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Service information & pricing
About AWS Cost Explorer
- About AWS Cost Explorer
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AWS Cost Explorer is a tool for visualizing and managing AWS costs and usage over time. It offers pre-set views for business insights, deep dive cost analysis, and creation, saving, and sharing of custom reports. It allows building of custom apps, granular cost filtering, and future billing forecasts. It also facilitates understanding of usage patterns with daily, monthly, or yearly cost and usage analysis.
- AWS Cost Explorer pricing
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AWS Cost Explorer API provides an interactive query engine for direct access which costs $0.01 per request. For data granularity, Cost Explorer offers hourly insights at a daily charge of $0.00000033 per usage record, translating to $0.01 per 1,000 usage records monthly. This means running one EC2 instance all day every day for a month results in a $0.003 monthly bill. The cost doesn't depend on the number of reports used.