Quickstart
We watch the AWS Cost Explorer https://console.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/home?#/dashboard to manage our on-demand, reserved and spot costs.
Costing Options
| Tool | Details | |
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| Cost Explorer | ||
| Cost Estimator | ||
| Savings Plans |
AWS Cost Calculator
It would be ideal if we could plan and track costs as pseudo Costs as Code (tied to Cloud Formation/terraform scripts). There is a way to export estimates in the https://calculator.aws/#/ using https://docs.aws.amazon.com/pricing-calculator/latest/userguide/export-estimate.html
There are issues with the cost calculator - it does not import estimate templates or break out details costs after the initial construction.
For example a IaaS T3a.medium 2vCPU/4Gb 100GB EBS DT outbound 10GB no peak scaling reserved 3y no upfront, snapshot weekly is US $31/month
Export and Share
Export to CSV
| The spreadsheet does not break out the costs though |
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And share to public URL
https://calculator.aws/#/estimate?id=ec30ab632e0ef82e8aad565a2b42d03498380b85
