# Monitor cost and usage
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 Enable teams to take action on their cost and usage through detailed visibility into the workload. Cost optimization begins with a granular understanding of the breakdown in cost and usage, the ability to model and forecast future spend, usage, and features, and the implementation of sufficient mechanisms to align cost and usage to your organization’s objectives. The following are required areas for monitoring your cost and usage: 

**Topics**
+ [COST03-BP01 Configure detailed information sources](cost_monitor_usage_detailed_source.md)
+ [COST03-BP02 Add organization information to cost and usage](cost_monitor_usage_org_information.md)
+ [COST03-BP03 Identify cost attribution categories](cost_monitor_usage_define_attribution.md)
+ [COST03-BP04 Establish organization metrics](cost_monitor_usage_define_kpi.md)
+ [COST03-BP05 Configure billing and cost management tools](cost_monitor_usage_config_tools.md)
+ [COST03-BP06 Allocate costs based on workload metrics](cost_monitor_usage_allocate_outcome.md)

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS Well-Architected. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query wellarchitected` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).