AWS Cost Explorer Reviews

.We can analyze our AWS cost by slicing and dissing,

We can filter the cost based on many things, resource, tag etc , using which it is easier to identify the cost factor and try to optimize it,

it has different types of analytic grapes and chart which helps in visualizing the cost trend,

cost values gets updated almost in real time,

The reporting style and metrics that able to be created from default reports. Deep dive with filtering functionality and forecasting

Would like to be able to customize reports more or develop my own

Reviewing costs and usage reports have helped us to be able to understand cost trends so we can be more efficient and cost-effective

- Many filter options to allowing viewing cost by services, accounts, running hours and usage, monthly or daily

- The charts help visualize the trends of cost (increasing / decreasing)

- Allow saving reports filter so I don't need to set same filter next time

- Sometime getting errors when saving reports

I like that it lets me explore different options and search by tags. When I tag my Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud instances, I would want to tag them and see pricing per each tag. That comes really useful for me.

I dislike a report function which is very inconvenient. CSV file can be imported but really hard to integrate with any of Databases on Amazon Web Services to search and run queries. However, I have found a solution using Anthena which works just fine for me.

I would say it definitely headed into the right direction and I would love to see it implemented better. The data that it gives is what matters the most and handling this data could be implemented better and that's what I am hoping to see in the future. In the marketplace, there are many applications being used and those which are used very frequently I believe should be implemented in Cost Explorer right away because that is what people really need. I would like to get a better visualization with the data so sometimes I am using 3rd party software such as Tableau. Apart from that, AWS Trusted Advisor should be configured with AWS Cost Explorer so it would help customers to see the connection between their spending and best practices.

I am trying to track down the price problem in the company when Amazon Web Services are not executed nor utilized correctly.

.Easy to use interface as well as feature rich

A bit detailing around cost controlling should be linked directly

there are 3rd party services or tools but this is good enough for early users

tracking and keeping cost under control

Cost Explorer is great to see the cost of different components within our AWS infrastructure and services. Seeing the breakout by day and available filters made it very simple and intuitive.

I would love to group services together so I can better isolate costs into groups (so I can better assign by client or platform).

It is easy to get lost when starting/stopping AWS resources. Use it early and often to stay in control of AWS footprint.

Understand our cost and run rates in our AWS environments. We were able to calculate daily run rates to better plan and forecast future costs.

You can get charts and reports about what you paid and in what as well as providing filtering on dates and on what did you use.

I think the UI could be made better as it have many details while it can be divided into more subpages.

I recommend using it as you will keep track of what you are paying for as well as getting reports which is useful for payments or keeping track of budgets.

I'm using it to know the costs that I'm paying for by seeing the reports generated for each month or for duration and filtering for usage of running or storage.

Daily usage reports, and the ability to break down series by tags, instance type, reservation type, etc.

Nothing really to dislike. Best cloud spend management there is.

Reducing total infrastructure spend - being able to see how costs change day to day really helps realize the impact of changes.

The ease of controlling the costs by separating by departments greatly helps the monthly control, the reports of that tool greatly help the financial team to define the accounting separation between the areas,

I believe it is possible to improve, add the separation of costs per service with in addition to tags.

Controlling your costs at AWS is essential to the success of your business.

The use of infra by service is an important way to speed up deliveries, but only with this tool is it possible to control and separate costs by area.

.The cost explorer help to find the cost of services that can charged over a period of time at beginning it self so that we can plan accordingly

Not much but it did not give much options

It help us to find the cost of infra and decide upon and decide what can be used and what price point