Welcome - AWS Billing and Cost Management
AWS Cost ExplorerAWS BudgetsAWS Cost and Usage ReportAWS Price List

Welcome

AWS Cost Explorer

You can use the Cost Explorer API to programmatically query your cost and usage data. You can query for aggregated data such as total monthly costs or total daily usage. You can also query for granular data. This might include the number of daily write operations for Amazon DynamoDB database tables in your production environment.

Service Endpoint

The Cost Explorer API provides the following endpoint:

  • https://ce.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

For information about the costs that are associated with the Cost Explorer API, see AWS Cost Management Pricing.

AWS Budgets

Use the AWS Budgets API to plan your service usage, service costs, and instance reservations. This API reference provides descriptions, syntax, and usage examples for each of the actions and data types for the AWS Budgets feature.

Budgets provide you with a way to see the following information:

  • How close your plan is to your budgeted amount or to the free tier limits

  • Your usage-to-date, including how much you've used of your Reserved Instances (RIs)

  • Your current estimated charges from AWS, and how much your predicted usage will accrue in charges by the end of the month

  • How much of your budget has been used

AWS updates your budget status several times a day. Budgets track your unblended costs, subscriptions, refunds, and RIs. You can create the following types of budgets:

  • Cost budgets - Plan how much you want to spend on a service.

  • Usage budgets - Plan how much you want to use one or more services.

  • RI utilization budgets - Define a utilization threshold, and receive alerts when your RI usage falls below that threshold. This lets you see if your RIs are unused or under-utilized.

  • RI coverage budgets - Define a coverage threshold, and receive alerts when the number of your instance hours that are covered by RIs fall below that threshold. This lets you see how much of your instance usage is covered by a reservation.

Service Endpoint

The AWS Budgets API provides the following endpoint:

  • https://budgets.amazonaws.com

For information about costs that are associated with the AWS Budgets API, see AWS Cost Management Pricing.

AWS Cost and Usage Report

You can use the AWS Cost and Usage Report API to programmatically create, query, and delete AWS Cost and Usage Report definitions.

AWS Cost and Usage Report track the monthly AWS costs and usage associated with your AWS account. The report contains line items for each unique combination of AWS product, usage type, and operation that your AWS account uses. You can configure the AWS Cost and Usage Report to show only the data that you want, using the AWS Cost and Usage Report API.

Service Endpoint

The AWS Cost and Usage Report API provides the following endpoint:

  • cur.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

AWS Price List

The AWS Price List API is a centralized and convenient way to programmatically query AWS for services, products, and pricing information. The AWS Price List uses standardized product attributes such as Location, Storage Class, and Operating System, and provides prices at the SKU level. You can use the AWS Price List to do the following:

  • Build cost control and scenario planning tools

  • Reconcile billing data

  • Forecast future spend for budgeting purposes

  • Provide cost benefit analysis that compare your internal workloads with AWS

Use GetServices without a service code to retrieve the service codes for all AWS services, then GetServices with a service code to retrieve the attribute names for that service. After you have the service code and attribute names, you can use GetAttributeValues to see what values are available for an attribute. With the service code and an attribute name and value, you can use GetProducts to find specific products that you're interested in, such as an AmazonEC2 instance, with a Provisioned IOPS volumeType.

You can use the following endpoints for the AWS Price List API:

  • https://api.pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

  • https://api.pricing.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com

  • https://api.pricing.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com

  • https://api.pricing.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com

For more information about AWS Billing and Cost Management endpoints, see AWS Billing and Cost Management endpoints and quotas in the Amazon Web Services General Reference .

For more information, see Using the AWS Price List API in the AWS Billing User Guide.