Monitoring your usage and costs

You can monitor your AWS usage with the following methods.

For information about , see the Cost and Usage Report Guide.

Topics

• Reading your dashboard graphs
• Analyzing your costs with Cost Explorer
• Managing your costs with AWS Budgets
• Reporting your budget metrics with budget reports
• Detecting unusual spend with anomaly detection
• Managing your costs with AWS Cost Categories
• Using Cost Allocation Tags
• Using the AWS Price List API
• Logging Billing and Cost Management API calls with AWS CloudTrail
• Avoiding unexpected charges