AWS Cost Explorer

Visualizes and analyzes historical cost and usage, broken down by service, account, or tag, and forecasts future spend.

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Cost Explorer explains the past. Budgets alerts on thresholds going forward.

Tested in AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02), under Billing, Pricing, and Support — 12% of the exam.

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