Other Measures and Monitors
Explore how to measure and monitor AWS cloud costs using features such as Cost Anomaly Detection to identify unusual spending, the AWS Price List API for real-time pricing data, and CloudTrail for auditing usage. Understand managing purchase orders and accessing compliance reports to improve financial transparency and control over cloud expenses.
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Cost Anomaly Detection
Cost Anomaly Detection uses machine learning to monitor our historical AWS usage patterns and alert us if we diverge from that historical baseline. We can configure alerts to happen immediately or get weekly or daily summaries. There is also integration with Slack or Amazon Chime using AWS Chatbot.
AWS Price List API
There are cases where having access to the real-time AWS prices of certain services might be very useful in driving some automation or cost analysis. For this purpose, AWS has an API available that can be queried to access the prices of services. Alternatively, we can download what AWS calls a bulk offer file in csv or json format, which is just a big data dump of prices for most services.
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