AWS Cost Explorer and Cost Anomaly Detection
Explore how to use AWS Cost Explorer and Cost Anomaly Detection to visualize and analyze your AWS costs. Learn to generate detailed reports, identify cost drivers, monitor spending trends, and detect anomalies. This lesson teaches you to optimize budgets and control AWS expenses by understanding usage patterns and forecasting costs.
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While working with AWS, it’s important to know about the costs we’re incurring. This helps us identify unexpected costs from services that shouldn’t be running and take necessary actions to control costs.
Introduction to Cost Explorer
The AWS Cost Explorer service is responsible for visualizing, understanding, and managing AWS costs and the resources associated with them over a period of time.
We can also generate Cost Explorer reports to evaluate cost and resource usage data. It helps us view our overall expenses or dive into details to find what’s driving costs and spot any unusual spending patterns. Here are ...