AWS Billing and Cost Management 和 AWS cost explorer 之间有什么区别？

Question

Hi StackOverflow community,

I need your help in understanding what is the difference between AWS Billing and Cost Management and AWS cost explorer.

I am not getting the difference.

Thank you very much in advance for your help.

regards

Answer 1

At an initial glance without getting deep into both it can cause confusion, but I'll try to break them down below.

AWS Billing and Cost Management provides a summarised view of spending ie what you spent so far this month, and the predicted end of month bill, this is quite static and gives you a high level overview of spending. In addition you can configure your billing details from here. All of these features are free to use with no charge for accessing the interface.

AWS Cost explorer on the other hand is a paid service ($0.01 per query). By using cost explorer you can dig down into the finer details of expenditure, such as on a region, service, usage type or even tag based level. Using this you can identify costs by targeting your query to be specific enough to identify these charges. Additionally you can make use of hourly billing to get the most accurate upto date billing

Answer 2

According to you, what is the best options for this questions involving either cost explorer or billing dashboard? A company observes an increase in Amazon EC2 costs in its most recent bill. The billing team notices unwanted vertical scaling of instance types for a couple of EC2 instances. A solutions architect needs to create a graph comparing the last 2 months of EC2 costs and perform an in-depth analysis to identify the root cause of the vertical scaling. How should the solutions architect generate the information with the LEAST operational overhead?

A. Use AWS Budgets to create a budget report and compare EC2 costs based on instance types.

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B. Use Cost Explorer's granular filtering feature to perform an in-depth analysis of EC2 costs based on instance types.

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C. Use graphs from the AWS Billing and Cost Management dashboard to compare EC2 costs based on instance types for the last 2 months.

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D. Use AWS Cost and Usage Reports to create a report and send it to an Amazon S3 bucket. Use Amazon QuickSight with Amazon S3 as a source to generate an interactive graph based on instance types.

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