# pricing ## Description The Amazon Web Services Price List API is a centralized and convenient way to programmatically query Amazon Web Services for services, products, and pricing information. The Amazon Web Services Price List uses standardized product attributes such as `Location` , `Storage Class` , and `Operating System` , and provides prices at the SKU level. You can use the Amazon Web Services Price List to do the following: * Build cost control and scenario planning tools * Reconcile billing data * Forecast future spend for budgeting purposes * Provide cost benefit analysis that compare your internal workloads with Amazon Web Services Use `GetServices` without a service code to retrieve the service codes for all Amazon Web Services services, then `GetServices` with a service code to retrieve the attribute names for that service. After you have the service code and attribute names, you can use `GetAttributeValues` to see what values are available for an attribute. With the service code and an attribute name and value, you can use `GetProducts` to find specific products that you’re interested in, such as an `AmazonEC2` instance, with a `Provisioned IOPS` `volumeType` . For more information, see [Using the Amazon Web Services Price List API](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/price-changes.html) in the *Billing User Guide* . ## Available Commands * [describe-services](describe-services.md) * [get-attribute-values](get-attribute-values.md) * [get-price-list-file-url](get-price-list-file-url.md) * [get-products](get-products.md) * [list-price-lists](list-price-lists.md)