Billing and CostingTools

• Compute Optimizer: recommends resources’ configurations to reduce cost

• Pricing Calculator: cost of services on AWS

• Billing Dashboard: high level overview + free tier dashboard

• Cost Allocation Tags: tag resources to create detailed reports

• Cost and Usage Reports: the most comprehensive billing dataset

• Cost Explorer: View current usage (detailed) and forecast usage

• Billing Alarms: in us-east-1 – track overall and per-service billing

• Budgets: more advanced – track usage, costs, RI, and get alerts

• Savings Plans: the easy way to save based on long-term usage of AWS

• Cost Anomaly Detection: detect unusual spending using Machine Learning

• Service Quotas: notify you when you’re close to the service quota threshold