# Understanding widget types
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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.



- **Custom**
  - **Widget name:** Cost / **Widget description:** Visualizes your aggregate costs across all AWS services, including breakdown by service, Region, or custom tags.
  - **Widget name:** Usage / **Widget description:** Visualizes your aggregate usage across all AWS services, helping you track resource consumption patterns.
  - **Widget name:** Budget / **Widget description:** Displays your AWS Budgets in a table format. You can filter budgets by name, threshold, and type to monitor budget performance directly within your dashboard.
  - **Widget name:** Cost Efficiency / **Widget description:** Displays your cost efficiency score over time so that you can track how efficiently your AWS environment is performing. You can view efficiency by AWS account, region, or overall, and adjust granularity to analyze trends.
  - **Widget name:** Detected Anomalies / **Widget description:** Displays cost anomalies detected by AWS Cost Anomaly Detection in a table, with columns such as monitor name, top root cause, cost impact, last detected, duration, expected and actual spend, severity, and assessment. You can filter anomalies by severity, assessment, service, usage type, region, monitor type, account, and anomaly ID to monitor anomalies directly within your dashboard.
  - **Widget name:** Savings Plans utilization / **Widget description:** Shows how well you're using your Savings Plans commitments, including unused and partially used commitments.

- **Savings Plans coverage**
  - **Widget name:** Shows what percentage of your usage is covered by Savings Plans.

- **Reservation utilization**
  - **Widget name:** Shows how well you're using your Reserved Instances.

- **Reservation coverage**
  - **Widget name:** Shows what percentage of your usage is covered by Reserved Instances.

- **Predefined**
  - **Widget name:** Monthly costs by service / **Widget description:** Visualizes your aggregate monthly costs across all AWS services for the last six months.
  - **Widget name:** Monthly costs by linked account / **Widget description:** Visualizes your aggregate monthly costs across all AWS linked accounts for the last six months.
  - **Widget name:** Monthly EC2 running hour costs / **Widget description:** Visualizes your monthly EC2 running hour costs for the last six months.
  - **Widget name:** Daily costs / **Widget description:** Visualizes your daily AWS costs for the last six months.
  - **Widget name:** AWS Marketplace costs / **Widget description:** 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.