Cost Management Tools
- AWS Cost Explorer — visualize/analyze past costs. Forecasts future spend. Rightsizing recommendations.
- AWS Budgets — set cost/usage alerts. Can trigger automated actions.
- AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) — most granular billing data. Integrates with Athena/Redshift.
- AWS Compute Optimizer — rightsizing recommendations based on actual CloudWatch metrics.
- AWS Trusted Advisor — checks cost optimization, security, performance, fault tolerance, service limits.
