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Hi there.
Cost explorer will not show you costs broken down per instance or for a single instance. You should use the AWS Pricing Calculator to get an estimate of what your RDS instance will cost.
I hope this helps.
Hello.
Cost allocation tags would be helpful.
This function allows you to sort rates by resource tag.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/custom-tags.html
Hi,
You may want to distinguish more precisely what you mean by "calculate":
- a posteriori, know precisely the costs of existing instances to dispatch them to distinct budgets. Then, Riku's answer with tags is the way to go
- a priori, estimate closely the costs of new instances to be create, then AWS Pricing calculator is the way to go: see https://calculator.aws/#/
This video is a good intro to Pricing Calculator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8BQ83lG8lQ
Best,
Didier
As I said the existing instances do not have cost tags. Can the Cost Explorer show you monthly costs breakdown by machine or not? Why cant I use the calculator to estimate costs? Is it because pricing might have changed when machine was created and now. I would think AWS increase pricing to match what the new estimate would be.
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I dont think they used cost tags for these machines.
Hi, agreed with Riku: tags can be useful to determine costs of existing instances. So, if your goal is to reallocate those costs to various distinct budgets, it is the right approach.