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status: archived
date: 2026-05-03
created: 2026-05-03
updated: 1980-01-01
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#### AWS Billing Dashboard
We can estimate and plan for your AWS costs
Receive alerts for service usage thresholds
invoice generated after monthly billing period or when subscription or one-time purchases are made
#### Three Fundamental ways AWS Charges
- Compute
- Storage
- Data transfer
#### Compute resource pricing models
- Pay as you go
- Save when you commit(Reserved Instances)
- Save when you commit(Savings Plans)
- Take advantage of unused AWS capacity (Spot Instances)
- Save by using your own licenses and utilizing dedicated hardware (Dedicated Hosts)
- Run Amazon **EC2** instances on dedicated hardware
- Reserve compute capacity in advance (charged when  you start using the instances)
- Pay less by using more
#### AWS Budget and Cost Management  Resources
![[img-20240911-130606-ca824e8f.png]]
Track budget before you spend

![[img-20240911-130735-0b55b716.png]]
Track budget after you spend
##### AWS CUR
![[img-20240911-130909-3645f398.png]]
Utilize AWS cost allocation tags on reports