Resource-level data at daily granularity

In Cost Explorer, you can enable resource-level data for your chosen AWS services at daily granularity for the past 14 days.

You can apply Group by: Resource to understand the cost of services by resource ID that you have enabled resource-level data for. Costs associated with services that you have not enabled resource-level data for appear under No resource ID in Cost Explorer. If you want to focus on resource-level costs for a specific service, choose the Resource filter in Cost Explorer, select the service you want to analyze, and then select all resources (if you don’t have a specific resource in mind) or a specific resource ID to understand cost and usage driven by that specific resource.

Use resource-level data to identify your cost drivers. When analyzing variances or anomalies in your AWS costs, you can group by service to first understand which service is causing the variance or anomaly. Then you can filter for that service in Cost Explorer and group by resource to create a view of costs per resource in that service. Use the Cost Explorer table and graphs to understand which specific resource has deviated from the normal usage pattern and is contributing to the variance or anomaly. If you want to understand how your spend on a specific resource has evolved over time, such as your spend on an S3 bucket, you can filter for that resource in Cost Explorer by selecting that resource ID in the Resource filter. Moreover, resource-level data is useful in order to understand which specific resources are consuming your Savings Plans and Reservations commitments. To create this view, you can filter for “Savings Plan Covered Usage” or “Reservation applied usage” charge types, group by resource, and filter for specific services that you have purchased Savings Plans and Reservations for.

Once enabled, resource-level data at daily granularity is available within 48 hours. Note that this data is not available for Savings Plans and Reservations utilization and coverage reports.

Note

We will disable resource-level data at daily granularity for your organization if no one in the organization accesses it in three consecutive months. However, if you need the data, you can re-enable it in Cost Management preferences.

Cost Explorer displays the top 5,000 most costly resources per service. If you have more than 5,000 resources, you might not see all of them in the console. However, you can search for those resources using the resource ID. Consider using Cost and Usage Reports (CUR) to retrieve the cost and usage associated with all resources as a CSV file.