Understanding the Cost and Usage Dashboard - AWS Data Exports

Understanding the Cost and Usage Dashboard

The Cost and Usage Dashboard is an easy to deploy, secure, and pre-built dashboard powered by Amazon QuickSight, and inspired from the Cloud Intelligence Dashboards (CID) open source project. The Cost and Usage Dashboard includes a subset of the summary visuals without the resource-level views from the CUDOS dashboard, which is one of the six Cloud Intelligence Dashboards. The Cost and Usage Dashboard brings the benefits of the CUDOS solution into an AWS Billing and Cost Management console feature that is easy to set up, and frees you from maintaining the underlying infrastructure, such as Amazon Athena views or AWS Glue crawlers. You can deploy the Cost and Usage Dashboard from the Data Exports page in the AWS Billing and Cost Management console within minutes. CID involves AWS CloudFormation template-based deployment. For information on setting up the complete CID solution, see AWS well architected labs.

The following table summarizes the differences between a Cost and Usage Dashboard and Cloud Intelligence Dashboards (CID):

Feature Cost and Usage Dashboard Cloud Intelligence Dashboards
Deployment Seamless deployment from AWS console CloudFormation, Command Line, or Terraform
Deployment options for AWS Organizations In management account only In management account or delegated linked account
Multiple AWS Organizations aggregation No Yes
High-level cost and usage insights Yes Yes
Resource-level details No Yes
Reserved Instances and Savings Plans insights No Yes
Supported data sources Cost and Usage Summary (dashboard view) Cost and Usage Report (CUR), Compute Optimizer, Trusted Advisor, Cost Anomaly Detection