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Dumb question: is there a way to show the total AWS costs you're incurring in the past second/minute/hour? The finest granularity I can find in the AWS web con

by desdiv 9y ago

Dumb question: is there a way to show the total AWS costs you're incurring in the past second/minute/hour? The finest granularity I can find in the AWS web console is per day; many times I've butterfingered an input and only caught it a few days after the fact due to the unexpected bill increase.

cyberferret 9y ago
You may be able to set up a CloudWatch alarm and monitor the dashboard there? Haven't played with it for billing, but have done so for Lambda executions. I think their granularity can go down to around 5 minutes IIRC.
- desdiv 9y ago
  Thanks for the tip. I enabled CloudWatch for billing, and I'm getting something, but it's not pretty: http://i.imgur.com/SO2dJzd.png http://i.imgur.com/SO2dJzd.png No matter what graph format I choose (between line and stacked area), all I'm getting is a single dot at 00:00 AM today for $0.35, which is the correct amount for cumulative spending this month. But it doesn't seem to be updating or graphing it correctly.
  - cyberferret 9y ago
    Yeah, I think even from my experience with their other services, that graph can be a bit misleading - even though it shows the timeline in 5 min increments, I think the actual refresh in the back end is a lot longer than that. No idea with their Billing system, but I think even Lambda doesn't get updated more than once every 15 minutes or so.
cldellow 9y ago
AWS supports publishing detailed billing information to an S3 bucket on an hourly frequency with excellent granularity as to which resource and operation is driving spend. Unfortunately, to make meaningful use of this you pretty much have to roll your own infra to download it, load it and analyze it. :(
- shusson 9y ago
  yeah I was surprised by this as well when I first started using AWS and GCP
- samstave 9y ago
  Once again... contact cloudability.
  - thenaturalist 9y ago
    cloudability starts at $499 minimum per month. Not sure how this seems to be a feasible option for side projects.
thenaturalist 9y ago
Hey, would love to understand this a bit more and see what a solution that is valuable to you looks like. I wasn't able to find contact details on your profile, so if you'd be up for discussing this a bit further, you can find my email in my profile.
putnam 9y ago
Thanks for asking. Would like this too.

by desdiv 9y ago

cyberferret 9y ago

You may be able to set up a CloudWatch alarm and monitor the dashboard there? Haven't played with it for billing, but have done so for Lambda executions. I think their granularity can go down to around 5 minutes IIRC.

desdiv 9y ago
Thanks for the tip. I enabled CloudWatch for billing, and I'm getting something, but it's not pretty: http://i.imgur.com/SO2dJzd.png http://i.imgur.com/SO2dJzd.png No matter what graph format I choose (between line and stacked area), all I'm getting is a single dot at 00:00 AM today for $0.35, which is the correct amount for cumulative spending this month. But it doesn't seem to be updating or graphing it correctly.
- cyberferret 9y ago
  Yeah, I think even from my experience with their other services, that graph can be a bit misleading - even though it shows the timeline in 5 min increments, I think the actual refresh in the back end is a lot longer than that. No idea with their Billing system, but I think even Lambda doesn't get updated more than once every 15 minutes or so.

cldellow 9y ago

AWS supports publishing detailed billing information to an S3 bucket on an hourly frequency with excellent granularity as to which resource and operation is driving spend. Unfortunately, to make meaningful use of this you pretty much have to roll your own infra to download it, load it and analyze it. :(

shusson 9y ago
yeah I was surprised by this as well when I first started using AWS and GCP
samstave 9y ago
Once again... contact cloudability.
- thenaturalist 9y ago
  cloudability starts at $499 minimum per month. Not sure how this seems to be a feasible option for side projects.

thenaturalist 9y ago

Hey, would love to understand this a bit more and see what a solution that is valuable to you looks like. I wasn't able to find contact details on your profile, so if you'd be up for discussing this a bit further, you can find my email in my profile.

putnam 9y ago

Thanks for asking. Would like this too.