VISI

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.

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What is AWS Trusted Advisor?