Understanding widget types

Dashboards help you monitor and analyze your AWS costs, usage, and resource commitments. Two types of widgets are available: custom widgets that you configure from scratch to track costs, usage, and commitment metrics, and predefined widgets that come with preset cost breakdowns over time.

Widget type	Widget name	Widget description
Custom	Cost	Visualizes your aggregate costs across all AWS services, including breakdown by service, Region, or custom tags.
	Usage	Visualizes your aggregate usage across all AWS services, helping you track resource consumption patterns.
	Savings Plans utilization	Shows how well you're using your Savings Plans commitments, including unused and partially used commitments.
	Savings Plans coverage	Shows what percentage of your usage is covered by Savings Plans.
	Reservation utilization	Shows how well you're using your Reserved Instances.
	Reservation coverage	Shows what percentage of your usage is covered by Reserved Instances.
Predefined	Monthly costs by service	Visualizes your aggregate monthly costs across all AWS services for the last six months.
	Monthly costs by linked account	Visualizes your aggregate monthly costs across all AWS linked accounts for the last six months.
	Monthly EC2 running hour costs	Visualizes your monthly EC2 running hour costs for the last six months.
	Daily costs	Visualizes your daily AWS costs for the last six months.
	AWS Marketplace costs	Visualizes your AWS Marketplace costs for the last six months.

Each of these widgets can be customized to show the data most relevant to your needs, allowing you to create comprehensive and insightful dashboards.