AWS Pricing & Cost Management

Cost management & budget

Monitor so that you’re not paying for unexpected costs
- You should check on a regular basis
- Account > - Billing and Cost Management
Check Bills tab
Check Budgets tab
- You can set a cost budget
- Doesn’t really limit your cost, but you can set an email so that once you’re close to the budget it sends the email (alert)
Check Cost Explorer tab
- can group by region, etc
- visualizes cost and usage data historically for up to 13 months
- useful for analyzing cost from aws management console
- can forecast future spend based on historical usage
Check Service Quotas
- Check different services that have certain limits
- You can request for increase for limits (if possible) if you need
- Search service quota in the search bar in the management console
Check AWS Cost Anomaly Detection
- uses ML to identify out-of-pattern spending for each service or usage dimension
Check Cost & Usage Reports
- the most detailed cost data feed in AWS
  - breaks down usage and cost by hour/day, service, usage type, region, or tags, producing large CSV or Parquet files in S3.
- generating a report for you (generated on a regular basis)
- CSV file to a S3 bucket you specify
- then you can use this result with other tools (ex. QuickSight)

regularly check your monthly bill and also consider using Budgets (with alerts)
always check the pricing pages of a service before you start using it & consult the Free Tier page to find out whether a service is included
Different services can also have different prices for different Regions. Therefore, you should make sure that you select an affordable Region in the top right corner.