New cost management preferences

Question

I just checked the boxes for more historical and granular data in the Cost Management Preferences but I see this message "Disabling: Your data will be disabled by 11/30/23, 1 PM CT. You won't be charged during this time." I don't want to be charged for any additional history and I was careful to avoid anything that mentioned an extra cost. How can I find out if I accidentally clicked on something that is going to have a cost associated?

Accepted Answer

The **Historical and granular data settings** at monthly and daily granularity don't incur charges. Only the hourly granularity options is charged.

If you wish to calculate and estimated monthly cost for the hourly granularity feature, when you check the boxes *Cost and usage data for all AWS services at hourly granularity (without resource-level data)** and *EC2-Instances (Elastic Compute Cloud - Compute) resource-level data** the **Estimated monthly usage summary** section will show the **Total hourly usage records**, you can then you can go to [Pricing Calculator](https://calculator.aws/#/addService/cost-explorer) and insert the total hourly usage records into the *Number of UsageRecords per month* field and it will show you the estimated monthly cost for it.

If you wish to check on Cost Explorer if your account was being charged for the hourly granularity feature, use the following report parameters:
- **Group by:** Usage type
- **Filters**:
   - **Service:** Cost Explorer
   - **Usage type:** USE1-CostDataStorage

If you were charged by the hourly feature, it will show the cost and the amount of usage records.

Answer

The available values for the filters are related to your usage. For instance, if you don't have Cost Explorer usage/cost then Cost Explorer won't be available as a an option to be filtered. However, you can force those filter parameters in the URL. You can try to use the URL below when signed in to your account and it will open your Cost Explorer with the filters mentioned before predefined:

https://us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/home?region=us-east-1#/cost-explorer?chartStyle=STACK&costAggregate=unBlendedCost&endDate=2023-11-30&excludeForecasting=false&filter=%5B%7B%22dimension%22:%7B%22id%22:%22Service%22,%22displayValue%22:%22Service%22%7D,%22operator%22:%22INCLUDES%22,%22values%22:%5B%7B%22value%22:%22AWS%20Cost%20Explorer%22,%22displayValue%22:%22Cost%20Explorer%22%7D%5D%7D,%7B%22dimension%22:%7B%22id%22:%22UsageType%22,%22displayValue%22:%22Usage%20type%22%7D,%22operator%22:%22INCLUDES%22,%22values%22:%5B%7B%22value%22:%22USE1-CostDataStorage%22,%22displayValue%22:%22USE1-CostDataStorage%20(UsageRecord-month)%22%7D%5D%7D%5D&futureRelativeRange=CUSTOM&granularity=Monthly&groupBy=%5B%22UsageType%22%5D&historicalRelativeRange=LAST_6_MONTHS&isDefault=true&reportName=New%20cost%20and%20usage%20report&showOnlyUncategorized=false&showOnlyUntagged=false&startDate=2023-06-01&usageAggregate=usageQuantity&useNormalizedUnits=false

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