AWS Cost Explorer
- What it is
- Visualize, understand, and manage AWS cost and usage over time.
- Free, with up to 13 months of history and a 12-month forecast.
- What you can do
- Filter and group by service, account, Region, instance type, or cost allocation tags.
- Daily, monthly, or hourly (paid) granularity.
- Built-in reports: Right-sizing recommendations, Savings Plans and Reserved Instance coverage and utilization.
- Cost Anomaly Detection — machine learning flags unexpected spend spikes and alerts you.
- Not to be confused with
- AWS Budgets — sets a threshold and alerts before you overspend. Cost Explorer analyzes what already happened.
- AWS Cost and Usage Report — the raw, line-item data for your own analysis tools. Cost Explorer is the ready-made dashboard.
- AWS Pricing Calculator — estimates cost before you deploy anything.