Module 2 - Section 4

AWS Billing

AWS Billing Dashboard

lets you view the status of your month-to-date AWS expenditure, identify the services that account for the majority of your overall expenditure, and understand at a high level how costs are trending.

Spend Summary

shows you how much you spent last month, the estimated costs of your AWS usage for the month to date, and a forecast for how much you are likely to spend this month.

Month-to-Date Spend by Service

which shows the top services that you use most and the proportion of costs that are attributed to that service

AWS Billing and Cost Management

__ is a service used for paying AWS bills, monitoring usage, and budgeting expenses

AWS Billing and Cost Management

this enables you to forecast and obtain a better idea of what your costs and usage might be in the future, so you can plan ahead

AWS Cost and Usage Report Tool

this enables you to identify opportunities for optimization, by understanding your cost and usage data trends and how you are using your AWS implementation

AWS Billing Dashboard

this lets you view the status of your month-to-date AWS expenses, and identify the services that account to the majority of your overall monthly bill

AWS Bills page

this lists the costs that you incurred over the past month for each AWS service, with a further breakdown by AWS region and linked account

Cost Explorer

With ____, you can visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time

AWS Budgets

uses the cost visualization that is provided by Cost Explorer to show you the status of your budgets and to provide forecasts of your estimated costs.

AWS Budgets

You can also use ___ to create notifications for when you go over your budget for the month, or when your estimated costs exceed your budget.

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS).

Budget alerts can be sent via email or via ___