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AWS Cost and Usage

Track AWS cost drivers, find optimization opportunities, and visualize budget-impacting trends.

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About this report

Pinpoint wasteful spending and optimization opportunities throughout your AWS environment with comprehensive cost breakdowns. Finance and engineering leaders get clear visibility into cost drivers, usage trends, and specific resources that deserve attention for budget improvements.

AWS Cost and Usage

Key questions

  • Where are we wasting money in our AWS environment?
  • Which AWS services and resources cost us the most?
  • How can we optimize our cloud spending without sacrificing performance?
  • What cost trends should we address before they become budget problems?

Visualizations in the report

Top Services by Cost

Ranks AWS services by their contribution to your bill. Focus optimization efforts where they'll have the biggest impact.

Top Services by Cost
Up to Date Monthly Cost

Displays your current month's AWS spending to date. Gives immediate visibility into budget status without waiting for month-end reports.

Last 3 Months Cost

Charts your spending over the previous quarter. This visualization reveals short-term patterns that might indicate cost problems to address.

Last 3 Months Cost
Last 6 Months Cost

Extends your cost history view to half a year. Makes gradual increases and seasonal patterns more apparent for better planning.

All Time Cost

Shows your complete AWS spending history since account creation. Provides historical context to your current cloud investment levels.

Cost by Region

Breaks down spending across AWS geographic regions. This visualization helps identify unexpectedly costly regions and opportunities for consolidation.

Cost by Region
Tag-Based Cost Allocation

Visualizes costs organized by resource tags. Enables accurate attribution of spending to teams, projects, or environments.

Cost Trend Over Time (Last 6 Months)

Plots your spending trajectory over time. Helps predict future costs and identify concerning growth patterns before they become budget crises.

Most Expensive Resources

Reveals your highest-cost individual AWS resources. Spotlights specific items that deserve immediate cost optimization attention.

Most Expensive Resources
Compute Cost Breakdown (EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS)

Segments compute costs by service type. Compare different compute approaches to identify the most cost-effective options for your workloads.

Compute Cost Breakdown (EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS)
Lambda Cost Overview

Provides detailed serverless function cost analysis. Identify expensive functions worth optimizing or rearchitecting.

Top 10 Most Expensive EC2 Instances

Lists your costliest virtual machines. Offers clear targets for rightsizing, reservation purchases, or workload consolidation.

Top 10 Most Expensive EC2 Instances
EC2 Total Spend

Summarizes your overall virtual machine costs. Gives perspective on compute spending as a portion of your total cloud bill.

EC2 Total Spend
EC2 Hours a Day

Charts EC2 usage patterns throughout 24-hour cycles. Spot opportunities for scheduling or autoscaling improvements to reduce idle capacity.

EC2 Hours a Day
AWS Container Services

Details spending on container orchestration platforms. Optimize costs for your containerized workloads across ECS, EKS, and Fargate.

AWS Container Services
EKS Cost Allocation Data Split per Namespace per Cluster (Last 3 Months)

Breaks down Kubernetes spending by namespace and cluster. Enable accurate chargeback to teams and applications using your container platform.

Amazon RDS

Provides detailed cost analysis for your relational database services. Get insights into one of your most critical and potentially expensive infrastructure components.

Amazon RDS
Total AWS Database Cost (This Month)

Shows your combined database spending across all services. Get visibility into one of the most significant components of cloud bills.

Database Cost by Service

Compares spending across RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift, and other database platforms. This visualization helps evaluate the cost implications of different database technologies.

Database Cost by Engine

Segments database spending by engine type. Understand the cost differences between MySQL, PostgreSQL, and other database engines.

Database Cost Trend (Last 90 Days)

Tracks database spending growth over time. Spot concerning increases before they become major budget issues.

Database Cost by Account

Maps database spending to specific AWS accounts. Identify which teams or environments have high database costs that may need optimization.

EBS Cost by Volume Type

Breaks down block storage costs by volume type. Quickly find opportunities to switch to more cost-effective options like gp3 from older gp2 volumes.

EBS Volumes that Can Be Modernized from gp2 to gp3

Lists storage volumes that could be migrated to newer generation. These migrations typically reduce costs without performance impact.

EC2 Instances That Are Not Using Graviton Processors

Highlights instances eligible for ARM migration. These specific targets could see significant cost reduction by moving to Graviton.

Graviton Usage

Tracks adoption of cost-efficient ARM-based instances. Identify opportunities to switch workloads from more expensive x86 options to AWS Graviton.

Idle ELBs

Identifies load balancers receiving no traffic. These unused resources can be removed for immediate cost savings.

Kinesis Idle Streams

Shows data streams with minimal activity. Find and eliminate unused streaming infrastructure that you're still paying for.

Top Services by Data Transfer Cost

Ranks services by their network transfer expenses. Pinpoint which applications generate the most costly data movement.

Top Services by Data Transfer Cost
Data Transfer Cost by Region

Shows network spending distribution by AWS region. Optimize application placement to minimize expensive cross-region charges.

Data Transfer Cost by Region
Network Cost by Transfer Type

Segments network costs by traffic patterns and destinations. Identify expensive cross-region or internet-bound traffic that could be optimized.

Top Network Consumers (Resource ID)

Identifies specific resources generating the most network traffic. Provides clear targets for network optimization or architecture changes.

Top Network Consumers (Resource ID)
Total Network Cost (This Month)

Reveals often-overlooked data transfer spending. Many teams miss this substantial cost category until it appears on this visualization.

Total AWS Storage Cost (This Month)

Displays your current storage spending across all services. Understand this fundamental infrastructure cost category.

Total AWS Storage Cost (Last 3 months)

Tracks your recent storage spending trajectory. Identify growth patterns that need attention.

Total AWS Storage Cost (Last 6 months)

Extends your storage cost history view. Makes gradual increases more apparent for better capacity planning.

Storage Cost by AWS Service

Compares costs across S3, EBS, and other storage platforms. This visualization helps evaluate different storage approaches for cost efficiency.

S3 Cost by Storage Class

Shows object storage costs by tier. Identify objects that could move to cheaper storage classes based on access patterns.

S3 Storage Cost by Bucket

Maps storage expenses to individual S3 buckets. Attribute costs to specific applications or datasets for better governance.

S3 Storage Cost by Bucket
Services with Cost Increase > 50% MoM

Flags services with alarming month-over-month growth. Address spending spikes before they become major budget issues.

RDS Idle Instances

Reveals database instances with minimal activity. Find opportunities to downsize or decommission underused databases.

Expired Savings Plans That Need Renewal

Alerts you to expired discount commitments. Avoid paying higher on-demand rates by promptly renewing these commitments.

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