From the course: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C01) Cert Prep: 4 Billing and Pricing

Billing concepts - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

From the course: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C01) Cert Prep: 4 Billing and Pricing

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Billing concepts

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- [Narrator] You've decided to host your static website on AWS and registered a domain through Route 53, AWS's domain name system, and hosted your website on S3, a storage service. You've now got bills to pay for your AWS use, what do you do? Log into your AWS admin console and check out the Billing and Cost Management Dashboard. The AWS Billing and Cost Management Dashboard allows you to estimate and plan your AWS costs. Through a service called consolidated billing, you can simplify your accounting if you have multiple AWS accounts. You can also receive alerts for service usage thresholds, which could help keep you from spending more money than anticipated. You can utilize a feature called Cost Explorer to view your costs as graphs, filter results by values like availability zone, AWS Services, EC2 instance types, region, usage types, and much more. You can also see a forecast of potential costs based on historical usage data. You can even have AWS generate billing reports with a breakdown of your costs by the hour or month, by product or by tags for your organization's billing needs. As you begin to deep dive into AWS and start testing out and utilizing its services, the Billing and Cost Management Dashboard will become a very important ally in both making sure your services don't get turned off for any billing related reasons, and to keep tabs on costs.

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