Tracking costs in cloud

Billing Dashboard

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Cost Allocation Tags

• Use cost allocation tags to track your AWS costs on a detailed level

• AWS-generated tags

• Automatically applied to the resource you create

• Starts with Prefix aws: (e.g. aws: createdBy)

• User-defined tags

• Defined by the user

• Starts with the Prefix user

Tagging and Resource Groups

• Tags are used for organizing resources:

• EC2: instances, images, load balancers, security groups...

• RDS, VPC resources, Route 53, IAM users, etc...

• Resources created by CloudFormation are all tagged the same way

• Free naming, common tags are Name, Environment, Team ...

• Tags can be used to create Resource Groups

• Create, maintain, and view a collection of resources that share common tags

• Manage these tags using the Tag Editor

Cost and Usage Reports

• Dive deeper into your AWS costs and usage

• The AWS Cost & Usage Report contains the most comprehensive set of AWS cost and usage data available, including additional metadata about AWS services, pricing, and reservations (e.g., Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances (RIs)).

• The AWS Cost & Usage Report lists AWS usage for each service category used by an account and its IAM users in hourly or daily line items, as well as any tags that you have activated for cost allocation purposes.

• Can be integrated with Athena, Redshift or QuickSight