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I was also seeing a surprising cost of about twice what I expected, but since I rarely use AWS I was assuming I had just calculated it wrong somehow. It's madde
by gwillen 7y ago
I was also seeing a surprising cost of about twice what I expected, but since I rarely use AWS I was assuming I had just calculated it wrong somehow. It's maddeningly difficult to see your usage history of services -- I still can't figure out how to see what my EC2 usage was this month. There is something called the "cost explorer" which I can't use yet, because apparently it takes 24 hours to set up (?), and it's not even clear that it will include my historical activity when it's ready...
- xtracto 7y agoAWS usage reporting is utter crap. The only usable data for me has been the actual billing table. But that is only monthly.
- paulfurtado 7y agoYou can make it dump monthly billing CSVs to s3 daily. You'll get a new CSV each day that contains the month to date so it gets bigger every day until it resets the next month.
- paulddraper 7y agoThe good news is that is that Cost Explorer is quite useful once it's on.
- userbinator 7y agoThere is something called the "cost explorer" which I can't use yet, because apparently it takes 24 hours to set up (?), and it's not even clear that it will include my historical activity when it's ready... Cost Explorer itself also charges per use. I'm not kidding: https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/pricing/ https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/pricing/
- brianmathews 7y agoThe API charges per use, but not the cost explorer dashboard itself.
- jmuhlich 7y agoAll those dashboards use the APIs underneath. The cost explorer dashboard certainly does incur API calls on my account.
- brianmathews 7y agono it doesn't
- kaikai 7y agoThey probably have cost explorer data in a different system and need to index your history before it can be used.
- brianmathews 7y agoIt will include your historical activity.