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Visualize in Cost Explorer
Overview
AWS Cost Categories in AWS Cost Explorer provide a flexible way to categorize and analyze your AWS costs. With Cost Categories, you can group your AWS costs into categories that make sense for your organization, such as by department, team, or AWS service. Creating a report with visualization using AWS Cost Categories enables you to gain better visibility into your costs, forecast costs for the next 12 months, and make informed decisions about your AWS usage.
For more information about controlling access for AWS Cost Explorer, see AWS Cost Management policy.
Note - You must have Cost Explorer enabled for this account to allow billing data access. Once Cost Explorer is enabled, it can take up to 24 hours for changes to take effect.
Console:
Log into Management Account created in AWS Account Setup.
Search for cost explorer in AWS console, choose AWS Cost Explorer.
In the navigation pane on the left, choose Cost Explorer.
In Report parameters, click on Date Range selected value under Time. Select Month to Date from Past option and click on Apply.
Under Group by, select Cost category as Dimension and cost by team as Cost category.
Under Filters, select cost by team as Cost category.
Click on the Excludes radio button under cost by team, select No cost category: cost by team and click on Apply.
Now you will be able to visualize the cost for teams Alpha and Beta. Click on Save to report library to view it later.
Give the name as cost report by teams and click on save report. We have created a cost report to analyze costs at team level.
Now you will create another cost report at department level using AWS Cost Categories. Repeat step-3 and step-4 for creating cost by department report.
Under Group by, select Cost Category as Dimension and cost by department as Cost category.
Under Filter, select cost by department as Cost Category.
Click on the Excludes radio button under cost by department and select No cost category: cost by department. Click on Apply.
Now you will be able to visualize the cost for digital department. Click on Save to report library to view it later.
Give the name as cost report by department and click on Save report. We have created a cost report to analyze costs at department level.
Now you will create the last report at service the level to analyze which AWS services Alpha team is using. Repeat step-3 and step-4 for creating cost by Service report for team Alpha.
Under Group by, select Service as Dimension.
Under Filter, select TeamName from Tag drop-down list.
Under TeamName, select Alpha.
Now you will be able to visualize the cost for Services created by team Alpha. Click on Save to report library to view it later.
Give the name as cost report by service for team alpha and click on Save report.
At the end of this section you will be able to see three cost reports under Reports section by the names cost report by teams, cost report by department and cost report by team alpha.
Now we have generated three reports at department, team, and service level so that you could drill down into specific areas of spending.
Congratulations!
You have completed this section of the lab. In this section you created two cost reports using cost categories as the filter using AWS Cost Explorer service.
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