Summary and Quiz
Explore key AWS billing and cost management services, including Cost Explorer, Budgets, Savings Plans, and Cost Anomaly Detection. Understand how these tools help visualize costs, set budgets, detect anomalies, and optimize AWS spending. Test your knowledge with a quiz to reinforce these concepts.
In this lesson, we’ll summarize what we’ve learned so far in this chapter and test our knowledge of the AWS services we learned about with a short quiz.
Summary
Here’s a summary of the key takeaways from this chapter:
AWS Billing and Cost Management
AWS Billing and Cost Management is an expansive AWS service for managing billing and cost details, encompassing several services that allow us to view bills, explore costs, set budgets, generate financial reports, make saving plans, detect cost anomalies for AWS, and much more.
By default, IAM users cannot access the Billing and Cost Management dashboard even with the required permissions. Intervention from the root user is required to enable access for IAM users.
AWS Cost Explorer
The AWS Cost Explorer service helps visualize, understand, and manage AWS costs and usage. Here are some key ...