Questions tagged with AWS Cost and Usage Report

Hi There, I have a scenario where the Cost and Usage report has been used for a while, however the corresponding S3 bucket was accidentally deleted last month. The bucket is now restored however there is a need to regenerate the April report in CSV, is there any way to recreate this or is it lost due to the bucket deletion? Thanks

I am using AWS Sagemaker services and delete any instances that belong to the services. However, i still get charged per day even though I dont use the service anymore. I sent the case to the customer support center but no clear explanation yet. Please any kind of help for my account to stop the cost.

I am using AWS Sagemaker services and delete any instances that belong to the services. However, i still get charged per day even though I dont use the service anymore. I sent the case to the customer support center but no clear explanation yet. Please any kind of help for my account to stop the cost.

Hi everyone! I'd like to understand better the billing composition regardless of AWS Backup on DynamoDB resources since I got an unexpected increase in my billing. I'm aware of AWS Backup billing itself thanks to the [documentation](https://aws.amazon.com/backup/pricing/), anyway, when I access the Billing service I can notice an exponential billing pricing in DynamoDB service, on the section `Amazon DynamoDB USE1-TimedBackupStorage-ByteHrs` the description allows me to see that I'll be paying $0.10 per GB-month of storage used for on-demand backup, showing me that I've used 14,247.295 GB-Month (This makes sense with the billing I got) but where my doubt comes from is, **where does all those GB come from?** The last snapshot-size just shows 175.5 GB I've configured my backup plan with the following parameters: ``` { "ruleName": "hourly-basis", "scheduleExpression": "cron(0 * ? * * *)", "startWindowMinutes": 60, "completionWindowMinutes": 180, "lifecycle": { "toDeletedAfterDays": 30 } } ``` I'm also copying snapshots into a second region on `us-west-2` As you can see, I'm handling a schedule expression on an hourly basis backup because of compliance requirements. *Is this enough justification for the high billing?* I'm aware that backups with low RPO are commonly expensive but I just want to be sure that this billing is not higher than it should be because of any wrong Backup configuration. Thanks in advance!

Hello, I have an AWS account and I need to create another instance in the same account. I am looking everywhere to see if I can hence get separate invoices for each instance. The only answers available seem to be: have different AWS accounts. Am I missing something? Thanks

We are a startup based in India and are using AWS for our entire tech stack from a long time. Recently, our EC2 reserved instances expired and we upgraded to Savings plan for them. Our credit card is declining the partial payment amount because it is high for a lump sum amount. The plan already got rejected once due to this. We have applied again. Can we have the total amount divided into smaller parts and get charged via multiple cards? Do we have any other mode of payment like payment via link, bank transfer, cheque etc. to complete this process asap. We are getting charged on the on-demand pricing that is costing us a lot. Any help is highly appreciated.

Can you tag an existing cloudformation resource in the console or cli?

Hi, We had procured AWS RI (1-year plan) for EC2 to save costs for the long term. However, due to changes in the business landscape, we don't need the EC2 instance for time being. Do you have any contact with AWS India to stop the commitment plan or defer it for a few months? saving plan id - 6cbe4553-87e5-4419-b84d-1ceb26e87c03

my website users stream and download large video files (static content) from my AWS S3 bucket. I know If I use CloudFront then 1st TB transfer is free. But my traffic is 10-20 TB per month and I want to minimize this cost. Please share recommended best practices for reducing costs.

How can we get the billing data for each day separately in individual files in the form of CUR report.

Following the well architected labs 200: Cost and usage analysis I get the following error when adding partitions in Athena Query Editor: ``` MSCK REPAIR TABLE `cost_optimization_10XXXXXXXX321`; ``` and it returned the following error: > FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. null This query ran against the "costfubar" database, unless qualified by the query. Please post the error message on our forum or contact customer support with Query Id: 856e146a-8b13-4175-8cd8-692eef6d3fa5 The table was created correctly in Glue with ``` Name cost_optimization_10XXXXXXXXX21 Description Database costfubar Classification parquet Location s3://cost-optimization-10XXXXXXX321// Connection Deprecated No Last updated Wed Apr 20 16:46:28 GMT-500 2022 Input format org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.parquet.MapredParquetInputFormat Output format org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.parquet.MapredParquetOutputFormat Serde serialization lib org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.parquet.serde.ParquetHiveSerDe Serde parameters serialization.format 1 Table properties sizeKey 4223322objectCount 4UPDATED_BY_CRAWLER costfubarCrawlerSchemaSerializerVersion 1.0recordCount 335239averageRecordSize 27exclusions ["s3://cost-optimization-107457606321/**.json","s3://cost-optimization-1XXXXXXXX21/**.csv","s3://cost-optimization-107457606321/**.sql","s3://cost-optimization-1XXXXXXXX321/**.gz","s3://cost-optimization-107457606321/**.zip","s3://cost-optimization-107457606321/**/cost_and_usage_data_status/*","s3://cost-optimization-107457606321/**.yml"]CrawlerSchemaDeserializerVersion 1.0compressionType nonetypeOfData file ``` and has the following partitions shown in Glue: ``` partition_0 partition_1 year month detailed-cur-1XXXXXXXX57 detailed-cur-1XXXXXXXX57 2018 12 View files View properties detailed-cur-1XXXXXXXXX57 detailed-cur-1XXXXXXXXX57 2022 4 View files View properties detailed-cur-1XXXXXXXXX57 detailed-cur-1XXXXXXXXX57 2018 11 View files View properties detailed-cur-1XXXXXXXX57 detailed-cur-1XXXXXXXX57 2018 10 View files View properties ```

I am using Terraform to manage tags across resources in multiple accounts. I am wondering if it is possible to also enable specific tags to be 'Cost Allocation Tags' programmatically or if all changes to this setting must be done from the AWS web console.

As for traffic usage of the AWS lightsail instances, I currently have a $5 AWS Lightsail instance which has built-in 2T traffic, right? Does this 2T quota contain both rx and tx, or only tx?

Hi Everyone, please help me to understand the following situation I'm looking at my usage report and I can't understand why I'm being charged 0.10 for the 100.294 metrics considering, that my number of metrics is below 10,000 (1800 metrics), where does 100.294 come from? Thanks! | cloudwatch | metric | cost | | ---| ---| ---| | $0.10 per metric-month for the next 240,000 metrics | 100.294 Metrics | $10.03 | | $0.30 per metric-month for the first 10,000 metrics | 1800 Metrics | $540.0 |

I did domain registration on 2 of April and it said this will cost 5 $ but why here in the graph it said there is an extra 34$ for registrar and what is the registrar . when I click in info: it said Apr 1, 2022 - Apr 30, 2022 (UTC) (Refunds, Credits excluded) I have 300 $ in my credit and I create budget to alert me before it reach 250.. I need to know what is registrar ? do I still need to pay 34 $ or it has been deducted from current balance screenshot in the below links https://paste.pics/GM02G https://paste.pics/GM02Q https://paste.pics/GM039

Cost Explorer is only showing some, not all, stacks in the returned tag results for the AWS CloudFormation tags (stack-name, logical-id, stack-id), the other stacks don't show. Affected stacks also don't show any cost in the Cost Explorer widget in the Application Manager console.

I am running a t3.xlarge EC2 instance for daily Veeam backup for MS365. The job only runs for about 20 minutes per day. I am looking for the best / most straightforward method to reduce costs of this instance. I started looking into using instance scheduler to start and stop the instance based on a schedule, and also looked into different instance options that may "bank" compute resources? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I have a minimal bill occurring from Elastic Cloud. I believe I've gone in and removed the cause. How can I be sure? Thank you.

Purchased a second reserved RDS instance by accident. Is there a way to get a refund from AWS, or sell the RI on the market place? First attempt required a US bank account, but located in Canada. A Reddit forum indicated that RDS RI's weren't available to resell, only EC2 RI's. Thanks.

I am using AWS Organizations. In the past I have changed the names of some of the accounts in my organization, but I have noticed that those changes are not reflected in the Linked Account on Cost Explorer. (They are showing under the old names). How can I fix this?

Hi, Will I be charged for Fargate idle instance? We are going to run activity as Fargate task within a step functions. Scaling parameters min_count=1 desire_count=1 Max_count=17 Scaling up if average CPU usage more than 50% and scaling down if usage less than 50%. Questions are * The above setup has a min and desire count =1, will we be charged for the CPU/Memory/storage usage 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week? The activity program pulls message from a SQS queue and start processing and on most part of the day, it should be idle. * I understand, there is aws cli command to set desire_count=0 but the messages comes in randomly over the day (i.e., we can not turn desire_count >0 during a period of time and turn it off). Is there a better way to design the system to save cost? Thank you.

I'm going crazy with this one. I shut down all usage of every service a year ago. Yet I'm still getting billed every month for a few dollars. And all the charges are from cost explorer itself. The only active reports I have there are all locked and undeletable. Somehow the service that is supposed to save money is the only thing charging me. I'm about to nuke my account because there does not seem to be any way to disable the service. Very frustrated. Any help would be great.

get-metric-statistics returns no results while cloud watch console shows data. I run ``` aws cloudwatch get-metric-statistics --namespace "AWS/Usage" --metric-name "ResourceCount" --start-time 2022-02-28T11:30:00Z --end-time 2022-02-28T14:50:00Z --period 60 --statistics Average --dimensions "Name=Type,Value=Resource" ``` The metric is ``` { "view": "timeSeries", "stacked": false, "region": "us-west-2", "stat": "Average", "period": 300, "metrics": [ [ { "expression": "SELECT AVG(ResourceCount) FROM SCHEMA(\"AWS/Usage\") WHERE Type = 'Resource' AND Resource = 'vCPU' AND Service = 'EC2' AND Class = 'Standard/OnDemand'", "label": "", "id": "q1" } ], [ "AWS/Usage", "ResourceCount", "Type", "Resource", "Resource", "vCPU", "Service", "EC2", "Class", "Standard/OnDemand", { "id": "m1" } ] ] } ```

An ec2 t2.micro instance (linux) shows a very abnormal behavior. I have a very light application which usually consumes less than 3% of CPU usage. Suddenly (almost each 4th day) the instance jumps at 100% CPU usage for around 12 hours and then stucks to 10% . When the instance is stuck, I can't even ssh in, the ssh connection just times out. Ine the image below the behavior is shown. After I stop & start the instance again, everything works again. Some other details: - the instance has a security group that only allows my ip address to connect via ssh. - The app runs in a docker container and it barely receives traffic. Any ideas would be highly appreciated :) https://imgur.com/a/j5BOf61

Although ec2 was stopped, IOPS-month provisioned continued to be charged. I know that GB-month of Provisioned IOPS SSD is charged because ebs is activated, but I am not sure if IOPS-month provisioned occurs because I am not using the ebs. (Since input and output did not occur, it is correct that iop should not occur, right?) Why is there a cost of IOPS-month provisioned for activated ebs on stopped ec2?

We had put off switching to Websockets as the old MQTT based subscriptions had been working without issues. However, given the 12/31/2021 deadline for the mandatory switch to Websockets, we went ahead and switched to the latest AppSync client in late December. Functionally, there haven't been any noticeable changes (negative or positive). However, the monthly cost has almost tripled. Our query/mutation/subscriptions counts are roughly in the same range as prior to the switch. Is there a reason we experienced this bump? Perhaps there's a way to track this down in the billing cost explorer? Any help is much appreciated!

Hello. I have 12 lambda functions. This month I received an AWS Free Tier limit alert. I would like to make a report, on which lambda consumes more times per GB and/or made many requests. For example, Lambda 1 operated 5000 requests and consumed 350000 GB-second. Using the day-by-day reports I can see anomalies and made decisions to solve them. Tell me please is it possible? How?

How to track the inactive assets like ec2 instances ,abs volumes ,snapshots and S3 buckets are not being used for more than 6 months and need to find those alerts to reduce the cost .

Will there be any cost incurred if I use this EP within my application code? https://secretsmanager.<region>.amazonaws.com If I create a VPC interface endpoint using the above default endpoint, will it cost?

I enabled Cost Explorer and my costs have gone way up. Billing shows that 152,000 requests were made in January, which translates to $1.52 but it's 75% of my total charges for that month. [Documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/latest/userguide/ce-what-is.html?icmpid=docs_ach_docs_ach_help_panel) says that "You can't disable Cost Explorer after you enable it.". I contacted AWS support and tried to follow their first suggestion of deleting all Cost Explorer reports, but the user interface does not allow deleting the core Cost Explorer reports. After realizing that, their suggestion was to remove from all users the permission to use Cost Explorer API: > It can't be disabled but charges will stop if they stop using Cost Explorer API. Cost Explorer API is not something that can be disabled, in order to stop being charged, you just have to stop using Cost Explorer API to query cost data and block ALL IAM users from using it. Cost Explorer API is only charged if a user (Root/IAM/Role) uses Cost Explorer API to query cost data. The issue is that I don't know how to do that. I believe it's some kind of "hidden"/internal service account that is doing all these requests automatically, as I didn't even open Cost Explorer Dashboard last month. If it's the root account, does IAM allow limiting its permissions? I looked at the Roles listed in IAM and none of them seem to have `ce:*` permissions. Has anyone tried to somehow disable Cost Explorer?

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" ] } } ] } } ] } ```

Hi there! On Dec 1st I submitted a purchase for a savings plan which should cover m5 family ec2 instance usage on us-east-1 region. I made the calculations to cover roughly what I was planning to use, but when looking at the billing details, it shows it only covered around %40 of the actual usage; but again, when looking at the saving plans usage, it shows only %54 of it was used. I couldn't figure out why all the usage wasn't being applied agaisnt the savings plan. The instance usage I intended to cover with this plan was a m5.2xlarge running Windows with SQL Enterprise. (The only m5 instance I'm actively using in this region) Unfortunatelly I can't post screenshots, but my m5 coverage report on us-east-1 region shows 44% coverage, but on the other hand my Saving plan utilization report shows only 54% usage. Thanks!!

Hi, I am quite new to aws, thus might not sound appropriate at times: I have a simple requirement: I have a instance under lightscale and it allows me 1.5 TB of usage every month. The instance was setup on 5th January. now all I need is: 1. At any point if I need to check the total bandwidth usage so far of the instance, how can I do that. I have seen things under instances Metrics/Incoming network traffic, but it shows all bars and no total sum figure for me to calculate of how much more I can use or is used. I understand that I will have to make a sum of incoming and outgoing for this, but I need to get to the figures to make a sum. 2. I want to setup a notification for the usage (inbound and outbound traffic) to come to me on my email from time to time, e,g. I want an email to come to me every week with the total usage done so far for current month

I'm following the steps provided from this [AWS Workshop](https://catalog.us-east-1.prod.workshops.aws/v2/workshops/fd889151-38aa-4fe2-a29d-d5fa557197bb/en-US/prerequisites) to create a **Cudos Dashboard** for cost reporting. When I get to step "**Prepare CUR & Athena Integration**" and attempt to create a new stack using CloudFormation I get the following error on the AWSCURInitializer event: `Resource handler returned message: "Specified ReservedConcurrentExecutions for function decreases account's UnreservedConcurrentExecution below its minimum value of [50]. (Service: Lambda, Status Code: 400, Request ID: a7a45878-caca-4e00-9df4-026caea7926a, Extended Request ID: null)" (RequestToken: 00c6a110-6f9b-2435-0682-7da69eaf96f2, HandlerErrorCode: InvalidRequest)` I think the key takeway from the erorr is this: *Specified ReservedConcurrentExecutions for function decreases account's UnreservedConcurrentExecution below its minimum value of 50* Anyone familiar with this error and know how to get around it? Thanks!

Hello, I am trying to figure out which tags does my CloudFront distribution have (for cost analysis). I am using Cloudformation to deploy the distribution, therefore I expected for distribution to have preconfigured the tags which cloud formation adds automatically (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-properties-resource-tags.html). When checking the tags, I only see "stage" tag. Why are the tags not added to CloudFront distribution? PS: I have noticed similar behavior for API gateways as well.

Our AWS Organization has been growing quite a lot (at least for us) in terms of Account numbers. VPN service has also added costs to the aggregated monthly total fee of USD 400 per account regarding the corresponding endpoint fixed price. Is this supposed to happen that way? I mean, adding an extra account with the VPN endpoint enabled always add the base cost to the whole month, or is there a more efficient way of doing so? PS: One of the main goals of having VPN access (if not the only one) is to have SSH access to EC2 instances in private subnets. **Second update:** We also use VPN access to our VPC as a tunnel to VPC peered services, such as Atlas' MongoDB or Redislabs instances.

Hello, We are ingesting CUR data for our own internal BI use cases. AWS Cost Explorer user interface provides a toggle to see amortized cost and net amortized cost for a resource. We want to surface the same in our inhouse BI dashboard. So in cost and usage report CSV, which is the column which reflects the above information for a resource ? Documentation is not very clear. What would the value of this column be for resources which does not have any RIs/discounts ? Any examples would help. Thanks.

Hi, I'm using EFS as "Provisioned" mode 50 (MiB/s) on the my "product environment". Then I pay minimum $360 dollars for this every months. When I read the aws documentation I'm starting to think this doesn't make much sense. See: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/efs/latest/ug/performance.html#:~:text=If%20the%20PercentIOLimit%20percentage%20returned%20was%20at%20or%20near%20100%20percent%20for%20a%20significant%20amount%20of%20time%20during%20the%20test%2C%20your%20application%20should%20use%20the%20Max%20I/O%20performance%20mode.%20Otherwise%2C%20it%20should%20use%20the%20default%20General%20Purpose%20mode Also I'm using "Bursting" mode on the my "test environment". And I check the cloudwatch metrics EFS on my "test environment". If my metrics are true: "Bursting" mode is already has "100 MiB/s" for just $7,20 for 20 GB storage. So I want to learn. If I switch the EFS service that I have provisioned to 50 mib/s to "Bursting" mode, will I have any problems?

I tested Snapshot of 60gb (10usd) light sail instance. Its actual size is only 6.2 gb. How much i get charged? 6.2Gb or 60gb I am trying to understand all costs involved. I thought it would show actual size of snapshot but i think snapshot is just cloning harddisk. That means i would be get charged for 60gb even though 90% is free space?

Hello, I just launched a Spring Boot application on Elastic Beanstalk and it connects to an AWS RDS database that I set up. I've had to upload many versions of my .jar file to EB to get it to work as I was troubleshooting and figuring out how to deploy it properly. Can someone please explain what this S3 usage is and why I am over 50% for the month? Is it because I had to keep uploading a new .jar file to EB? For example: Amazon Simple Storage Service 2,000 Put, Copy, Post or List Requests of Amazon S3 54.65% usage Is this because I kept uploading new versions of my application? Best, Sai

### Background [When VPC flow logs are enabled and delivered to S3, you incur a CloudWatch "Vended Log" cost for "each GB of Data Ingested"](https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/pricing/). CloudWatch delivers these flow logs to S3 as gzip-compressed text by default and you can instead optionally choose Parquet. In either case, this means stored S3 object size will be smaller than the raw log files. ### Question At what point in the data flow does CloudWatch calculate the size (in GB) of flow logs delivered to S3? i.e is it before or after the results are compressed? The pricing docs say its based on "Data Ingested", which to me suggests pre-compression logs. However, when I look at an example line item from the AWS Cost & Usage Report, the line description says "$0.xxx per GB of log data **delivered** to S3", and to me, "delivered", would imply usage is measured post-compression. Before anyone asks, I do not currently have the ability to look at the destination bucket myself; otherwise, I could just compare size of objects in S3 to the corresponding flow log billing detail.

I wanted to fetch previous months CUR reports, I wasn't able to find a way to provide period which creating the Cur report. can anybody suggest how i can get previous months CUR reports

I am using AWS CUR reports to analyze my billing and usage data, I want to copy my CUR report to a sql table, but since the columns on the CUR reports don't remain constant, hence i am unable to copy it to table until i modify the table columns each time when the columns change. Can anybody suggest a way to limit or restrict the columns in CUR report or alternate way to copy the data to sql table.

How can a list of resources that were created in the last week be generated? Is it something that can be done with Athena + CUR (like https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws-cost-management/querying-your-aws-cost-and-usage-report-using-amazon-athena/?, but taking into account resources generating spend in the last week and resources that were generating spend before that), but maybe someone already has a query at hand? :)

A customer plans to use both a centrally managed Quicksight account, but also allow freedom for individual account owners to spin up their owner Quicksight instance. They would like to automate some steps of the QS setup, ie: Enable SAML SSO, Attach VPC. Without cloudformation support for QS, is there any other way to automate the initial setup & config of a new QS deployment?

Based on this document, https://aws.amazon.com/athena/pricing/ > Amazon Athena queries data directly from Amazon S3. There are no additional storage charges for querying your data with Athena. **You are charged standard S3 rates for storage, requests,** and data transfer. Would customer be charged for S3 GET Operation when using Athena to query data in S3 in addition to the total size of data being scanned?

Hi, I've fielded a question a few times that's generally along the lines of: > I have a single RDS (or EC2) instance for my multi-tenant SaaS application. I know the total spend by department/system based on cost allocation tags, but I want to know cost by tenant for a chargeback model. My response is that - well, there are a lot of way to do this but it ultimately comes down to combining data from the server. For example, you could use any one (or combination of) query counts, query times, storage usage, etc. by database user (or group/schema/etc), export that to S3, and combine that with the cost and usage report from AWS using Athena/Spectrum/etc. There's no "out-of-the-box" AWS solution for split billing / chargebacks in RDS... this would be custom development My question is: has anyone seen any good open source examples or partner solutions for this scenario? Though question is focused on database billing, if you've seen things for related services (e.g. EC2, ECS, Lambdas, etc.), that would also be of interest.