Monitoring your usage and costs

You can monitor your AWS usage with the following methods.

For information about AWS Cost and Usage Reports, 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 AWS Cost 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