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AWS Cost Explorer AWS Cost Explorer is a tool that enables you to visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time. AWS Cost Explorer includes a default report of the costs and usage for your top five cost-accruing AWS services. You can apply custom filters and groups to analyze your data. For example, you can view resource usage at the hourly level. Example: AWS Cost Explore..

AWS Budgets In AWS Budgets, you can create budgets to plan your service usage, service costs, and instance reservations. The information in AWS Budgets updates three times a day. This helps you to accurately determine how close your usage is to your budgeted amounts or to the AWS Free Tier limits. In AWS Budgets, you can also set custom alerts when your usage exceeds (or is forecasted to exceed)..

Consolidated billing In an earlier module, you learned about AWS Organizations, a service that enables you to manage multiple AWS accounts from a central location. AWS Organizations also provides the option for consolidated billing. The consolidated billing feature of AWS Organizations enables you to receive a single bill for all AWS accounts in your organization. By consolidating, you can easil..

Use the AWS Billing & Cost Management dashboard to pay your AWS bill, monitor your usage, and analyze and control your costs. Compare your current month-to-date balance with the previous month, and get a forecast of the next month based on current usage. View month-to-date spend by service. View Free Tier usage by service. Access Cost Explorer and create budgets. Purchase and manage Savings Plan..

How AWS pricing works AWS offers a range of cloud computing services with pay-as-you-go pricing. Pay for what you use. – For each service, you pay for exactly the amount of resources that you actually use, without requiring long-term contracts or complex licensing. Pay less when you reserve. – Some services offer reservation options that provide a significant discount compared to On-Demand Insta..

AWS Free Tier The AWS Free Tier enables you to begin using certain services without having to worry about incurring costs for the specified period. Three types of offers are available: Always Free 12 Months Free Trials For each free tier offer, make sure to review the specific details about exactly which resource types are included. Always Free – These offers do not expire and are available to a..

AWS Trusted Advisor AWS Trusted Advisor is a web service that inspects your AWS environment and provides real-time recommendations in accordance with AWS best practices. Trusted Advisor compares its findings to AWS best practices in five categories: cost optimization, performance, security, fault tolerance, and service limits. For the checks in each category, Trusted Advisor offers a list of rec..

AWS CloudTrail AWS CloudTrail records API calls for your account. The recorded information includes the identity of the API caller, the time of the API call, the source IP address of the API caller, and more. You can think of CloudTrail as a “trail” of breadcrumbs (or a log of actions) that someone has left behind them. Recall that you can use API calls to provision, manage, and configure your A..

Amazon CloudWatch Amazon CloudWatch is a web service that enables you to monitor and manage various metrics and configure alarm actions based on data from those metrics. CloudWatch uses metrics to represent the data points for your resources. AWS services send metrics to CloudWatch. CloudWatch then uses these metrics to create graphs automatically that show how performance has changed over time...

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