Services - Billing and Cost Management

Question 1

Cost Explorer - Characteristics 1

Answer 1

• Lets you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time
• Can set custom time periods to visualize data over daily / monthly level of granularity
• Cost Explorer API, Cost Explorer Hourly, and Resource Granularity are charged

Question 2

Cost Explorer - Characteristics 2

Answer 2

• Can generate new reports based on filtering and grouping of functionality, using a variety of dimensions
• Lets you forecast to know what your costs and usage look like in the future
• Includes recommendations for EC2 Savings Plans purchase types. So it will help you to decide the best option