Questions tagged with AWS Cost Categories

Hi team. How are you doing? Hope fine. I would like to share some situation that I'm exposed and till now i could no find any way to do it property by AWS tools. When we have an environment that i need to chargeback the cost internally to different business unit, its clear. But when we have a huge environment with a ton of different resources (kinesis, S3 bucket, Glue, Redshift, Containers, etc) accessed, used and shared by different tenant, there's a problem. I need to chargeback each tenant for each resourced used by them and each resource have a different way to count/measure and till now i just found the AWS Cost Profiler. This AWS Cost Profiler can only record how many time(in hours/mins) the tenant has been useing the resource, but for example, when we talk about database, we need to measure how many MB/GB/TB this specific tenant store. Have you been thought this any time? Do you use any other tool do to it? Thank you!lg...

Hello AWS Team, I have just created my account and I want to make an EC2 Spot request and I have some questions. I have made the technical configurations and pre-requisites in order to request for an instance but I want to clarify how this is charged. For example when I proceeded with some request and have been provided with a fullfiled - active instance I couldn't shut down the instance because it was not persistent . If I create a non-persistent does charges apply hourly even I don't use / I am not connected to the instance? If this is the case then could you please advice me how to create a persistent spot request and leave it shut down and use it only when I want in order for charges to not apply at the time I don't use it ? Thanks in advance !lg...

Writing cost category rule expressions, I want to create a compound expression such that the rule matches tag X equals A OR tag Y equals B. How can this be done (via the json editor as the expression builder doesn't support compound expressions)? I get an error saying root expression must be AND - is there a workaround to this? ``` { "RuleVersion": "CostCategoryExpression.v1", "Rules": [ { "Rule": { "Or": [ { "Tags": { "Key": "X", "MatchOptions": [ "STARTS_WITH" ], "Values": [ "A" ] } }, { "Tags": { "Key": "Y", "MatchOptions": [ "STARTS_WITH" ], "Values": [ "B" ] } } ] }, "Type": "REGULAR", "Value": "example" } ] } ```lg...

My app is in beta, so it's not really being used, I received a spike in my bill because of app sync and open search service. I can't figure out why this charge is happening or who triggered it. Could someone help me?lg...

I will like to know if it is possible to assign multiple values to a single key tag in AWS, especially for EC2 instances. Kindly advise.lg...

The [General AWS Cost Categories FAQs](https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/aws-cost-categories/faqs/) and documentation mention that using the JSON Editor in the Cost Category creation Console, one can > define a Cost Category with additional logical operators such as NOT and OR besides AND But I can not find any example and my attempts all lead to errors being flagged in the JSON editor. Would love to find some examples of how to specify the OR of several Tags. The [CostCategoryRule](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/latest/APIReference/API_CostCategoryRule.html) says `Root level OR isn't supported. We recommend that you create a separate rule instead.` But I have no idea how one could create a separate rule that would do what I need. What I would like to do is the following, but it currently gives me the error `Failed to create Cost Category: Expression cannot contain OR on root level`: ``` { "RuleVersion": "CostCategoryExpression.v1", "Rules": [ { "Type": "REGULAR", "Value": "production-001", "Rule": { "Or": [ { "Tags": { "Key": "Environnment", "Values": [ "prod" ], "MatchOptions": [ "EQUALS" ] } }, { "Tags": { "Key": "Environment", "Values": [ "prod" ], "MatchOptions": [ "EQUALS" ] } }, { "Tags": { "Key": "TerraformWorkspace", "Values": [ "prod" ], "MatchOptions": [ "CONTAINS" ] } }, { "Tags": { "Key": "aws:ecs:clusterName", "Values": [ "prod" ], "MatchOptions": [ "CONTAINS" ] } } ] } } ] } ```lg...

I'm trying and failing to get a budget to use the Total Allocated Cost for a Cost Category Value. I've read the documentation and as far as I can tell this is not supported? I think I'm SOL but I wanted to check here before I gave up. I'll explain what I'm trying to do below. I've set up cost categories for each project with rules for each environment with an example below. I have three additional rules letting me split some costs that are shared between environments. Now I want to apply a budget to get alerts when the dev environment (or any environment for that matter) exceeds its budget. But the split costs are not reflected outside the Cost Categories Overview. As far as the budget console is concerned dev is only costing $19.61 a month, it is completely ignoring the additional costs coming in from the split. Is there anyway to get budget alerts on the total allocated cost for the P1-Dev Value? P1-Cost-Catigory | Value | Cost | Split Charge | Total Allocated Cost | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | P1-Test | $25.31 | $367.98 | $393.30 | | P1-Dev | $19.61 | $367.98 | $387.60 | | P1-Production | $222.90 | $133.26 | $356.16 | | P1-Acceptance | $177.60 | $133.26 | $310.86 | | P1-Shared-All (Split charge) | $533.05 | $0.00 | $0.00 | | P1-Dev-Test (Split charge) | $469.44 | $0.00 | $0.00 | | P1-Acpt-Prod (Split charge) | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | Seems odd that I can't get the budget to respect the totals.. is there an obvious work around that I'm to new to see?lg...

I am attempting to use the AWS Pricing Calculator to estimate retrieving objects from S3, and it asks for the number of LIST requests to S3 and the number of GET, SELECT from S3. The calculator also asks for the estimated amount of data returned and scanned. I am unsure of how to estimate these numbers. If I want to retrieve 1,000 objects, would it incur 1,000 GET and SELECT requests but only one LIST request? I am assuming *data returned *is the amount of data transferred out, but what is *data scanned*? Any clarification would be greatly appreaciated.lg...