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Trusted Advisor
Trusted Advisor analyzes your AWS environment and provides best practice recommendations in five categories:
Cost Optimization
Performance
Security
Fault Tolerance
Service Limits
Access to the seven core Trusted Advisor checks are available to all AWS users.
Access to the full set of Trusted Advisor checks are available to Business and Enterprise Support plans.
AWS Cost Explorer
Cost Explorer includes a default report that helps you visualize the costs and usage associated with your TOP FIVE cost-accruing AWS services, and gives you a detailed breakdown on all services in the table view.
You can view data for up to the last 12 months, forecast how much you’re likely to spend for the next three months, and get recommendations on what Reserved Instances to purchase.
Cost Explorer must be enabled before it can be used. You can enable it only if you’re the owner of the AWS account and you signed in to the account with your root credentials.
If you’re the owner of a management account in an organization, enabling Cost Explorer enables Cost Explorer for all of the organization accounts. You can’t grant or deny access individually.
You can create forecasts that predict your AWS usage and define a time range for the forecast.
Other default reports available are:
The EC2 Monthly Cost and Usage report lets you view all of your AWS costs over the past two months, as well as your current month-to-date costs.
The Monthly Costs by Linked Account report lets you view the distribution of costs across your organization.
The Monthly Running Costs report gives you an overview of all of your running costs over the past three months, and provides forecasted numbers for the coming month with a corresponding confidence interval.
AWS Budgets
Set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed or are forecasted to exceed your budgeted amount.
With Budgets, you can view the following information:
How close your plan is to your budgeted amount or to the free tier limits
Your usage to date, including how much you have used of your Reserved Instances and purchased Savings Plans.
Your current estimated charges from AWS and how much your predicted usage will incur in charges by the end of the month
Budget information is updated up to three times a day.
Types of Budgets:
Cost budgets – Plan how much you want to spend on a service.
Usage budgets – Plan how much you want to use one or more services.
RI utilization budgets – Define a utilization threshold and receive alerts when your RI usage falls below that threshold.
RI coverage budgets – Define a coverage threshold and receive alerts when the number of your instance hours that are covered by RIs fall below that threshold.
Budgets can be tracked at the daily, monthly, quarterly, or yearly level, and you can customize the start and end dates.
Budget alerts can be sent via email and/or Amazon SNS topic.