How would I be able to view all the services running on aws. I have been charged some $$$, so what to close the services that are running. Most of the $ are being charged for KMS(Key Management System). When I go inside the KMS from aws console there's nothing.
Please Help!!!!
Give this a try:-
Go to my Billing dashboard.
Under left pane -> Billing -> go to Bills.
Here you can find bills according to month with charges based on different services.
If you click on a specific service(drop down), you can find, under which region the service has been launched and its charges
Depending on the access level you have in the project, there are 2 options
Option 1 (Mentioned in the previous comments)
Go to my Billing dashboard
Under left pane -> Billing -> go to Bills.
This option work only if you have access to the billing information
Option 2 - Use the VPC Dashboard
Search for VPC
In the VPC Dashboard you can see "Resources by Region"
Notes: This will give you information about the selected region in the top right corner, however, each resource contains The see all regions dropdown that gives an indication of where that resource is used.
Often the Cost Explorer is one of the best tools to identify where the money is being spent without much delays -- if you check on your bill, it will take the entire cycle to find out.
On the top of your chart on CE, you can change the grouping and usually Usage Type makes it easier to understand the exact usage of that service.
Also, keep in mind if you don't see the expected service on AWS Console, double-check if you are looking at the correct region (top right of your screen).
Another option to see all resources being used is to go to the "AWS Resource Groups"-->"Tag Editor".
Select "All Regions" and "All Supported Resource Types" (or any specific resource you are interested in. Click "Search resources". (hopefully) Done!
Firstly, go to Billing Dashboard. It open as "AWS Billing Dashboard" (notice ../billing/home in the url).
If you want to view all different aws-services you have been consuming, along with their bills. From the left-pan menu, navigate to => Cost Explorer -> Launch Cost Explorer.Here you can find bills according to your months, regions, service-type, usage-type, etc. with charges based on different services.
If you want to view your cumulative bill (regarding all usage of aws services), from the left-pane menu go to Bills.
Firstly, you can check aws bills to see for what you have been charted for - https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/view-aws-payments/; Also, aws has a tool called trusted advisor that will be able to help you to optimize your pricing. Lastly, there is a tool called cost explorer - https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/aws-cost-explorer/, but personally I haven't tried it yet.
Top right corner user menu > billing dashboard (from drop-down)> bills (left sidebar menu)
This is exactly what I found in my case and find that two unnecessary ec2 instance is running in unwanted region that I'm paying extra.
And a little thought. AWS is only telling me what I'm charged for. That amount is already transferred to AWS. Instead if it would have shown me a nicer dashboard that says all the services currently running. Then I could find out which one I don't need anymore and prevent that unwanted loss of money.
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I am trying to differentiate costs among my AWS EC2 instances.
I've tried everything mentioned via forums and AWS, I've created Tags to ID each EC2 instance, and I still cannot seem to get billing report telling me how much each instance is accumulating cost wise. They are all lumped together.
I created and enabled a tag for each, but still Cost Explorer is virtually useless, and only chunks these costs into instance types.
One other similar solution mentioned to create separate AWS accounts for each customer/client? Which in my case, is too late, if this is the only way to differentiate costs among the running EC2 instances.
You need to manually enable cost allocation tags in the console.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/activating-tags.html
To activate your tags
Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Billing and Cost Management console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/.
In the navigation pane, choose Cost Allocation Tags.
Select the tags that you want to activate.
Choose Activate.
Good luck!
Hi StackOverflow community,
I need your help in understanding what is the difference between AWS Billing and Cost Management and AWS cost explorer.
I am not getting the difference.
Thank you very much in advance for your help.
regards
At an initial glance without getting deep into both it can cause confusion, but I'll try to break them down below.
AWS Billing and Cost Management provides a summarised view of spending i.e. what you spent so far this month, and the predicted end of month bill, this is quite static and gives you a high level overview of spending. In addition you can configure your billing details from here. All of these features are free to use with no charge for accessing the interface.
AWS Cost explorer on the other hand is a paid service ($0.01 per query). By using cost explorer you can dig down into the finer details of expenditure, such as on a region, service, usage type or even tag based level. Using this you can identify costs by targeting your query to be specific enough to identify these charges. Additionally you can make use of hourly billing to get the most accurate upto date billing
According to you, what is the best options for this questions involving either cost explorer or billing dashboard?
A company observes an increase in Amazon EC2 costs in its most recent bill. The billing team notices unwanted vertical scaling of instance types for a couple of EC2 instances. A solutions architect needs to create a graph comparing the last 2 months of EC2 costs and perform an in-depth analysis to identify the root cause of the vertical scaling.
How should the solutions architect generate the information with the LEAST operational overhead?
A. Use AWS Budgets to create a budget report and compare EC2 costs based on instance types.
B. Use Cost Explorer's granular filtering feature to perform an in-depth analysis of EC2 costs based on instance types.
C. Use graphs from the AWS Billing and Cost Management dashboard to compare EC2 costs based on instance types for the last 2 months.
D. Use AWS Cost and Usage Reports to create a report and send it to an Amazon S3 bucket. Use Amazon QuickSight with Amazon S3 as a source to generate an interactive graph based on instance types.
AWS is charging me but the cost reports aren't showing enough detail to figure out why. I think it might be one EC2 instance I created for the tutorial but I can't figure out how to delete it. Can you help?
I signed up for Amazon free tier and I'm doing the tutorial on https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/projects/build-modern-app-fargate-lambda-dynamodb-python/?e=gs&p=gsrc
It says on the first page "Many of the services used are included in the AWS Free Tier. For those that are not, the sample application will cost, in total, less than $1/day." So then I finished the first two modules of that tutorial and quit for the day -- I didn't shut down any services (cause the tutorial didn't tell me to) but today I got an email saying I've exceeded my $5 AWS threshold in only e days! The email has a link to a Cost Report that says it's spending $2.16 per day, but it won't tell me what!
I've gone through all the cost explorer reports and they confirm I'm spending money on EC2 but I can't find why. Can you help?
Here's a screenshot of the "Billing Management Console" -- says I spent that money on "EC2". But then when I drilled down into EC2 it wouldn't tell me exactly what.
So I clicked on the AWS Cost Management report and it says I'm spending $2.16 a day but it won't give any more granularity that that because all the advanced reports are monthly and don't yet show the last three days. (Apparently it lets you opt-in to daily/hourly reports but it says it charges a fee for that too so I didn't). So I don't know what specifically is charging.
So I clicked on the EC2 Dashboard. It said I'm using one volumne, 2 elastic ip addresses, and 4 security groups. I figured out how to delete the volume but I can't figure out how to delete the IP address or the security group. Are those charging me money? How do I delete them?
I went to the EC2 Instances and there is one "Volume" in use (basically a docker container created for the tutorial) so I deleted that, but that was well below what the Free Tier provides, so was that the source of my charges? Then I went to the Instances and it says there is one instance so I deleted that too. But it still says I have two IP addresses and comments below say I'm being charged for that.
How can I delete this IP addresses? There is no delete button.
How can I be 100% sure everything is deleted and I'm not getting any more charges?
Turns out the answer was actually a NAT Gateway VPN. That doesn't show up on the billing report screenshots above, but I eventually found it mentioned on the billing and then shut it off.
Unassigned ElasticIP will cost you money.
You delete ElasticIPs by Releasing them.
Security groups does not cost money. In general, for advanced users it is better to create all resources with CloudFormation stack so they can be all cleaned by deleting the stack.
If you have an Elastic IP assigned, and it's not in use, AWS charges you for it, if it's actually assigned to an EC2 instance and used, it's free. (To discourage people from hoarding Elastic IPs.)
When you're in the EC2 web console, click 'Running Instances'. What do you see? How many instances? How many stopped? How many running?
I don't think the security groups can be deleted, and I don't think AWS charges for them.
I have an AWS account, i have created to do some research. I have started some of its services. Now I want to cancel some services like EC2 and RDS. There is an option in Manage Account section for "Cancel Selected Service" but in its dropdown menu, there is nothing to select.
You can't cancel a service, to my knowledge. All you can do is to stop using it, which will mean zero charges on your credit card.
Just delete the instances you are not using any more. Not really sure what it means to cancel a service as billing is usage based.
I was dorking around with AWS (and related services), hoping that I could stay in the Free Tier, like I do when I'm exploring Google App Engine.
A few days ago, I get a letter from Amazon that they've charged me $33 or so for my 2 days of exploration.
This has got to end, but I forget what services I've enabled. Ideally, I'd just disable the AWS account entirely, as without a free sandbox there's no way I'm going to be using their service. Is there a global off button, or do I have to stumble around to turn all their services off individually? Or do I have to delete my CC information and just create a new Amazon account altogether?
You can close your entire account in AWS Billing: https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/home?#/account
Or if you just want to disable your "Free-Tier" services that has charges, view them here:
https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/home#/freetier
Then open your EC2 dashboard - and cancel those services:
https://us-west-2.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2
For example:
Stop running instances, delete volumes, remove elastic IPs, etc.
Otherwise, I recommend sending an email to webservices#amazon.com from the email you used to signup with their service.
I had an RDS running and I couldn't figure out how to cancel just that service
Here's how to do it:
Go to billing services
https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/home?region=us-west-2#/
Click "Bill Details"
Inspect it
You'll find NAME OF SERVICE + ITS LOCATION. This is the information you need.
https://console.aws.amazon.com/rds/home?region=us-east-1
Go to topright of page. Select the correct server location
The rest is straightforward from here
I was also frustrated (by being charged on the free tier without any info/warning in prior) and found a simple and elegant solution to turn off all AWS services. You delete your account and forget about these fraudulent (to be honest) AWS services.
Here is the link:
https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/home?#/account
Here is the section:
I know this is a somehow an old question, but I would like to add a new answer because I think AWS has changed a lot since this was asked. I have stumbled on a similar situation as the OP and I found out that there are 3 possible ways to achieve this:
To have a single turn-off-everything button, but I'm not sure if this exists.
Overkill, go through the services and check them one by one and shutdown/delete any instances or running services.
To find out the actual source of leaking (cost occurring services) by viewing what is posting charges on your account and then turn off these services one by one. This can be done by visiting:
your AWS account >> My Billing Dashboard
Find your account username and open the drop down menu:
You can check what services are incurring fees.
Percentage table:
I followed the services by searching for their name on AWS console, if I couldn't find it I'd Google how to do so and then turned them off one by one.
In my case, there was no charge towards my bank even thought billing showed I have some balance, I think it's because I was using the free tier, maybe?
I just hit my free tier limit. I terminated my ec2 instance, deleted my storage volume and even removed my security group and key pair so I have nothing now. Hopefully no charge :P
Always make sure you select the right region. I once had 2 instances running and didnt realize it.
Today I finally discovered a global view to detect all the active services, you still have to disable every service manually but at least you don't have to switch all the regions to understand where you have active services.