Managing your saved Cost Explorer reports

You can save the results of a Cost Explorer query as a Cost Explorer report. This enables you to track your Cost Explorer results and forecasts over time.

Creating a Cost Explorer report

You can use the console to save the results of a Cost Explorer query as a report.

Note

Cost Explorer reports can be modified. We strongly recommend that you don't use them for auditing purposes.

To save a Cost Explorer report

1. Open the AWS Cost Management console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/home.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Cost Explorer Saved Reports.

3. Choose Create new report. This resets all of your Cost Explorer settings to your default settings.

4. Select a report type.

5. Choose Create report.

6. Customize your Cost Explorer settings.

7. Choose Save to report library.

8. In the Save to report library dialog box, enter a name for your report, and then choose Save report.

Viewing a Cost Explorer report

You can use the console to view saved Cost Explorer reports.

To view your saved reports

1. Open the AWS Cost Management console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/home.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Cost Explorer Saved Reports.

Editing a Cost Explorer report

You can use the console to edit Cost Explorer reports.

To edit a report

1. Open the AWS Cost Management console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/home.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Cost Explorer Saved Reports.

3. Choose the report that you want to edit.

   Note

   You can't edit the predefined reports. If you choose one of the predefined reports as a starting point for a report, enter a new report name in the report name field and continue with this procedure.

4. Customize your Cost Explorer settings.

5. Choose Save to overwrite the existing report, or else choose Save as a new report.

6. In the Save to report library dialog box, enter a name for your report, and then choose Save report.

Deleting a Cost Explorer report

You can use the console to delete saved Cost Explorer reports.

To delete a saved report

1. Open the AWS Cost Management console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/home.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Cost Explorer Saved Reports.

3. Select the check box next to the report you want to delete.

   Note

   The Reports page contains predefined reports that cannot be deleted. These default reports are identified by a lock icon. You can, however, delete custom reports.

4. Choose Delete.

5. In the Delete reports dialog box, choose Delete.