AWS Billing - User Guide

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AWS Billing

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AWS Billing

AWS Billing: User Guide

User Guide

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AWS Billing

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User Guide

What is AWS Billing and Cost Management? ................................................................................. 1 Features of AWS Billing and Cost Management .................................................................................... 1 Billing and payments .............................................................................................................................. 1 Cost analysis ............................................................................................................................................. 2 Cost organization .................................................................................................................................... 2 Budgeting and planning ........................................................................................................................ 3 Savings and commitments .................................................................................................................... 3 Related services ............................................................................................................................................ 3 AWS Billing Conductor ........................................................................................................................... 3 IAM ............................................................................................................................................................. 4 AWS Organizations ................................................................................................................................. 4 AWS Pricing Calculator .......................................................................................................................... 5

Getting started with an AWS account ............................................................................................ 6 Step 1: Sign up for AWS and create an IAM user .................................................................................. 6 Sign up for an AWS account ................................................................................................................ 6 Create an administrative user .............................................................................................................. 7 Step 2: Review your bills and usage ........................................................................................................ 8 Step 3: Download or print your bill ......................................................................................................... 8 Learn more about Billing features ............................................................................................................ 8 What do I do next? ...................................................................................................................................... 9 Optimize your spending using AWS Cost Management features .................................................. 9 Using the Billing and Cost Management API .................................................................................... 9 Learn more ............................................................................................................................................... 9 Get help .................................................................................................................................................. 10

Using the AWS Billing and Cost Management home page ......................................................... 11 Managing Billing and Cost Management widgets ............................................................................... 11 Cost summary ............................................................................................................................................. 12 Cost monitor ............................................................................................................................................... 13 Cost breakdown .......................................................................................................................................... 14 Recommended actions .............................................................................................................................. 14 Related resources .................................................................................................................................. 16 Cost allocation coverage ........................................................................................................................... 16 Savings opportunities ................................................................................................................................ 18 Understanding the Billing dashboard .................................................................................................... 18

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Understanding the differences between AWS Billing data and AWS Cost Explorer data ............. 21 Billing data ............................................................................................................................................. 21 Cost Explorer data ................................................................................................................................ 21 Amortized costs ..................................................................................................................................... 22 AWS service grouping .......................................................................................................................... 22 Estimated charges for the current month ....................................................................................... 22 Rounding ................................................................................................................................................. 23 Presentation of discounts, credits, refunds, and taxes .................................................................. 23

Getting help ................................................................................................................................... 24 AWS Knowledge Center ............................................................................................................................ 24 Contacting AWS Support .......................................................................................................................... 24 Understanding your charged usage ....................................................................................................... 25 Monitoring your Free Tier usage ............................................................................................................. 25 Avoiding unexpected charges .................................................................................................................. 26 Usage exceeds AWS Free Tier ............................................................................................................ 27 Bill received after account closure .................................................................................................... 27 Turning off AWS Regions .................................................................................................................... 27 Elastic Beanstalk environments ......................................................................................................... 27 Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) .............................................................................................................. 27 Services started in AWS OpsWorks ................................................................................................... 27 Amazon EC2 instances ......................................................................................................................... 28 Amazon Elastic Block Store volumes and snapshots .................................................................... 28 Elastic IP addresses .............................................................................................................................. 30 Services launched by other services ................................................................................................. 30 Storage services .................................................................................................................................... 30

Managing your account ................................................................................................................. 31 Managing an AWS account ...................................................................................................................... 31 Editing your account name, AWS account root user password, and AWS account root user email address ......................................................................................................................................... 32 Editing contact information ............................................................................................................... 33 Adding or updating alternate contacts ............................................................................................ 34 Adding or editing security challenge questions ............................................................................. 34 Enabling and disabling AWS Regions ............................................................................................... 35 Activating IAM access to the AWS Billing and Cost Management console ................................ 36 Manage account contract information ............................................................................................. 37 Updating and deleting tax registration numbers ........................................................................... 37

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Turning on tax setting inheritance .................................................................................................... 38 Managing your US tax exemptions ................................................................................................... 39 Closing your AWS account .................................................................................................................. 40 Managing an account in India ................................................................................................................. 40 Determining which company your account is with ........................................................................ 41 Signing up for Amazon Web Services India Private Limited ........................................................ 41 Managing your AWS India account ................................................................................................... 43 Finding the seller of record ..................................................................................................................... 50 Current SORs ......................................................................................................................................... 51 Related resources .................................................................................................................................. 52 Monthly billing checklist .............................................................................................................. 54 Check purchase order balance and expiration ..................................................................................... 54 Review tax settings .................................................................................................................................... 55 Enable tax setting inheritance ................................................................................................................. 55 Update billing contact information ........................................................................................................ 56 Review payment currency ........................................................................................................................ 57 View your bill ................................................................................................................................ 58 View your monthly charges ..................................................................................................................... 58 Use the Bills page to understand your monthly charges and invoice ............................................. 59 Download a PDF of your invoice ............................................................................................................ 62 Get an invoice emailed to you ................................................................................................................ 62 Additional invoice email ...................................................................................................................... 63 Related information ............................................................................................................................. 63 Download a monthly report .................................................................................................................... 64 Using the Billing preferences page .............................................................................................. 65 Invoice delivery preferences .................................................................................................................... 65 Alert preferences ........................................................................................................................................ 66 Credit sharing preferences ....................................................................................................................... 67 Reserved Instances and Savings Plans discount sharing preferences .............................................. 68 Detailed billing reports (legacy) .............................................................................................................. 69 Manage payments .......................................................................................................................... 70 Make payments, check funds, and view payment history ................................................................. 70 Make a payment ................................................................................................................................... 71 View remaining invoices, unapplied funds, and payment history ............................................... 72 Manage credit card payment verification ............................................................................................. 73 Best practices for verification ............................................................................................................ 74

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Payment verification ............................................................................................................................ 74 Troubleshooting payment verification ............................................................................................. 75 AWS Organizations ............................................................................................................................... 75 Subscription purchases ........................................................................................................................ 75 Manage credit card and ACH payment methods ................................................................................. 76 Add a credit card .................................................................................................................................. 76 Update a credit card ............................................................................................................................ 77 Troubleshoot unverified credit cards ................................................................................................ 77 Delete a credit card .............................................................................................................................. 78 Manage ACH direct debit payment methods .................................................................................. 78 Manage Advance Pay ................................................................................................................................ 81 Registering your Advance Pay ............................................................................................................ 82 Adding funds to your Advance Pay .................................................................................................. 82 Manage AWS payments in CNY .............................................................................................................. 83 Using the China bank redirect payment method ........................................................................... 83 Use a Chinese yuan credit card ......................................................................................................... 87 Manage PIX payment method in Brazil ................................................................................................. 89 Manage payments in India ....................................................................................................................... 90 Supported payment methods ............................................................................................................ 91 Use a credit or debit card to make a payment ............................................................................... 91 Save your credit or debit card details .............................................................................................. 92 Add card details when making a payment ...................................................................................... 92 Delete a credit or debit card .............................................................................................................. 93 Add a net banking account ................................................................................................................ 93 Use a net banking account to make a payment ............................................................................ 94 Remove a net banking account ......................................................................................................... 95 Manage payments in AWS Europe ......................................................................................................... 95 Manage AWS Europe payment methods ......................................................................................... 95 Make payments, check funds, and view payment history in AWS Europe ................................. 97 Manage AWS Europe credit card payment methods ..................................................................... 99 Manage AWS Europe credit card payment verifications ............................................................. 101 Manage SEPA direct debit payment method ................................................................................ 103 Manage payment profiles ...................................................................................................................... 107 Create payment profiles .................................................................................................................... 108 Edit payment profiles ........................................................................................................................ 111 Delete payment profiles .................................................................................................................... 112

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Manage your AWS payment preferences ............................................................................................ 112 View your payment methods ........................................................................................................... 113 Designate a default payment method ........................................................................................... 113 Remove a payment method ............................................................................................................. 114 Changing the currency to pay your bill ......................................................................................... 114 Adding additional billing contact email addresses ...................................................................... 115

Viewing your customer carbon footprint tool ........................................................................... 116 Getting started with customer carbon footprint tool ...................................................................... 116 IAM policies .......................................................................................................................................... 116 AWS Organizations users .................................................................................................................. 116 Understanding your customer carbon footprint tool overview ..................................................... 117 Understanding your carbon emission estimations ............................................................................ 118 Regions, usage, and billing data factors ....................................................................................... 118 Customer carbon footprint tool and Amazon's carbon footprint report ................................. 119

Managing your purchase orders ................................................................................................. 120 Setting up purchase order configurations .......................................................................................... 121 Adding a purchase order ........................................................................................................................ 124 Editing your purchase orders ................................................................................................................ 126 Deleting your purchase orders .............................................................................................................. 129 Viewing your purchase orders ............................................................................................................... 129 Reading your purchase order details page ......................................................................................... 130 Enabling purchase order notifications ................................................................................................. 132 Use tags to manage access to purchase orders ................................................................................ 132

Managing your costs with AWS Cost Categories ....................................................................... 135 Supported dimensions ............................................................................................................................ 137 Supported operations ............................................................................................................................. 138 Supported rule types .............................................................................................................................. 138 Default value ............................................................................................................................................ 139 Status .......................................................................................................................................................... 139 Quotas ........................................................................................................................................................ 139 Term comparisons .................................................................................................................................... 140 Creating cost categories ......................................................................................................................... 140 Tagging cost categories .......................................................................................................................... 143 Viewing cost categories .......................................................................................................................... 144 Navigating to your cost category details page ............................................................................ 144 Understanding your cost category details page .......................................................................... 145

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Your cost category month-to-date categorizations .................................................................... 145 Download your cost category values ............................................................................................. 145 Change your cost type ...................................................................................................................... 145 Editing cost categories ............................................................................................................................ 146 Deleting cost categories ......................................................................................................................... 147 Splitting charges within cost categories ............................................................................................. 147 Prerequisites ........................................................................................................................................ 148 Understanding split charge best practices .................................................................................... 149 Using AWS cost allocation tags .................................................................................................. 150 AWS generated cost allocation tags .................................................................................................... 152 AWS Marketplace vendor-provided tags ....................................................................................... 157 Activating the AWS generated cost allocation tags .................................................................... 157 Deactivating the AWS generated cost allocation tags ................................................................ 158 Restrictions on AWS generated cost allocation tags ................................................................... 158 User-defined cost allocation tags ......................................................................................................... 159 Applying user-defined cost allocation tags .................................................................................. 159 Activating user-defined cost allocation tags ................................................................................ 160 User-defined tag restrictions ........................................................................................................... 161 Monthly cost allocation report ............................................................................................................. 162 Setting up a monthly cost allocation report ................................................................................ 163 Getting an hourly cost allocation report ....................................................................................... 164 Viewing a cost allocation report ..................................................................................................... 164 Understanding dates for cost allocation tags .................................................................................... 166 Using the AWS Free Tier ............................................................................................................. 167 Eligibility .................................................................................................................................................... 168 Avoid unexpected charges ..................................................................................................................... 168 Track your usage ...................................................................................................................................... 170 Using AWS Free Tier usage alerts ................................................................................................... 170 Recommended actions for Free Tier .............................................................................................. 172 Trackable AWS Free Tier services .................................................................................................... 172 Using the Free Tier API .......................................................................................................................... 206 Related resources ................................................................................................................................ 209 What is AWS Price List? .............................................................................................................. 210 Use the AWS Price List Query API ....................................................................................................... 212 IAM permissions .................................................................................................................................. 212 Endpoints .............................................................................................................................................. 213

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