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Click On Cost Explorer To Get Monthly EC2 Running Hours, Costs, and Usage

The document discusses how to view cost details and manage budgets in AWS Cost Explorer. It provides screenshots showing how to view daily costs, costs by service, and service charge details. It also describes how to create and manage budgets, edit payment methods, and configure billing preferences and notifications. The document then introduces the AWS TCO calculator for comparing the costs of hosting applications on-premises versus in AWS.

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Click On Cost Explorer To Get Monthly EC2 Running Hours, Costs, and Usage

The document discusses how to view cost details and manage budgets in AWS Cost Explorer. It provides screenshots showing how to view daily costs, costs by service, and service charge details. It also describes how to create and manage budgets, edit payment methods, and configure billing preferences and notifications. The document then introduces the AWS TCO calculator for comparing the costs of hosting applications on-premises versus in AWS.

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The Basics of Networking with AWS Chapter 1

Click on Cost Explorer to get monthly EC2 running hours, costs, and usage:

On the Reports dropdown menu, select Daily costs to get details of costs on a daily basis,
as shown in the following screenshot:

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Click on the Bill Details in the Month-to-Date spend by service section. You can expand
all of the services to get more information about the cost that was incurred by using that
specific service:

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By clicking on the dropdown arrow of each service, you will be able to get the complete
details of the service charges, as shown in the following screenshot:

You can also manage budgets from My Billing Dashboard. You can create and manage
budgets, refine your budget using filters, and add notifications to a budget.

The Payment Methods section will allow you to edit and remove Payment Methods, and
also lets you make payments.

You can also configure Preferences to get the following:

Receive PDF invoices by email


Receive billing alerts
Receive billing reports

In the next section, we will look at a sample architecture that uses Amazon VPC.

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AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)


Calculator
Is there any way to make a cost comparison of the application that you have hosted on-
premises and the application that's hosted in your AWS environment?

The answer is yes! Follow these steps to find out how:

1. Go to https:/​/​aws.​amazon.​com/​tco-​calculator/​ and click on Launch the TCO


Calculator. Alternatively, you can go to https:/​/​awstcocalculator.​com/​:

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Let's see what the cost comparison is for three web servers with four cores and 8
GB memory and 1 TB storage:

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2. Click on Calculate TCO.


3. Here, you will be provided with a 3-year cost breakdown:

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