AWS Pricing and Billing Services

AWS Pricing and Billing Services Overview

AWS provides services to help you manage and optimize your cloud costs. This includes consolidated billing through AWS Organizations, as well as tools to view, track, and forecast expenses.

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AWS Organizations

AWS Organizations provides centralized management and governance of your AWS environment.

Using AWS Organizations, you can create, group, and manage accounts. You can also apply security policies at the account level and consolidate billing with multiple accounts using a single payment method.

Use Cases

Consolidate multiple AWS accounts into one central organization
Implement organization-wide policies

To learn more about AWS Organizations, refer to the AWS Organizations User Guide.

AWS Billing and Cost Management Dashboard

The AWS Billing and Cost Management dashboard centralizes cost management, showing current charges, usage, forecasts, and detailed breakdowns.

It also provides tools to manage payments, view invoices, set budgets, and consolidate billing.

Use Cases

Use helpful visualizations and billing reports of monthly AWS spend
Set up and manage payment methods

To learn more about the AWS Billing and Cost Management dashboard, refer to the AWS Billing User Guide.

AWS Budgets

AWS Budgets helps set custom budgets and sends alerts when costs, usage, or Savings Plans and Reserved Instances (RIs) utilization or coverage exceed defined thresholds.

Use Cases

Set up alerts for when projected costs exceed predefined thresholds
Forecast future expenses based on current usage trends

To learn more, refer to Managing your costs with AWS Budgets.

AWS Cost Explorer

AWS Cost Explorer helps visualize, analyze, and manage AWS costs and usage with interactive graphs, reports, and forecasts.

It provides insights into spending patterns, trends, and Reserved Instance recommendations.

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Use Cases

Analyze historical spending trends to identify cost-saving opportunities
Forecast future AWS costs based on current usage patterns to budget effectively

To learn more, refer to Analyzing your costs and usage with AWS Cost Explorer.

AWS Pricing Calculator

The AWS Pricing Calculator is a web-based planning tool that you can use to create estimates.

You input specific configurations such as instance types, storage options, and data transfer volumes. Then, based on your configurations, you receive a detailed cost breakdown to help you budget for your AWS resource allocation.