Welcome - Amazon Billing and Cost Management
Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions, see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China (PDF).

Welcome

Amazon Cost Explorer

You can use the Cost Explorer API to programmatically query your cost and usage data. You can query for aggregated data such as total monthly costs or total daily usage. You can also query for granular data. This might include the number of daily write operations for Amazon DynamoDB database tables in your production environment.

Service Endpoint

The Cost Explorer API provides the following endpoint:

  • https://ce.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

For information about the costs that are associated with the Cost Explorer API, see Amazon Cost Management Pricing.

Amazon Data Exports

You can use the Data Exports API to create customized exports from multiple Amazon cost management and billing datasets, such as cost and usage data and cost optimization recommendations.

The Data Exports API provides the following endpoint:

  • https://bcm-data-exports.us-east-1.api.aws

Amazon Budgets

Use the Amazon Budgets API to plan your service usage, service costs, and instance reservations. This API reference provides descriptions, syntax, and usage examples for each of the actions and data types for the Amazon Budgets feature.

Budgets provide you with a way to see the following information:

  • How close your plan is to your budgeted amount or to the free tier limits

  • Your usage-to-date, including how much you've used of your Reserved Instances (RIs)

  • Your current estimated charges from Amazon, and how much your predicted usage will accrue in charges by the end of the month

  • How much of your budget has been used

Amazon updates your budget status several times a day. Budgets track your unblended costs, subscriptions, refunds, and RIs. You can create the following types of budgets:

  • Cost budgets - Plan how much you want to spend on a service.

  • Usage budgets - Plan how much you want to use one or more services.

  • RI utilization budgets - Define a utilization threshold, and receive alerts when your RI usage falls below that threshold. This lets you see if your RIs are unused or under-utilized.

  • RI coverage budgets - Define a coverage threshold, and receive alerts when the number of your instance hours that are covered by RIs fall below that threshold. This lets you see how much of your instance usage is covered by a reservation.

Service Endpoint

The Amazon Budgets API provides the following endpoint:

  • https://budgets.amazonaws.com

For information about costs that are associated with the Amazon Budgets API, see Amazon Cost Management Pricing.

Amazon Cost Optimization Hub

You can use the Cost Optimization Hub API to programmatically identify, filter, aggregate, and quantify savings for your cost optimization recommendations across multiple Amazon Regions and Amazon accounts in your organization.

The Cost Optimization Hub API provides the following endpoint:

  • https://cost-optimization-hub.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

Amazon Cost and Usage Report

You can use the Amazon Cost and Usage Report API to programmatically create, query, and delete Amazon Cost and Usage Report definitions.

Amazon Cost and Usage Report track the monthly Amazon costs and usage associated with your Amazon Web Services account. The report contains line items for each unique combination of Amazon product, usage type, and operation that your Amazon account uses. You can configure the Amazon Cost and Usage Report to show only the data that you want, using the Amazon Cost and Usage Report API.

Service Endpoint

The Amazon Cost and Usage Report API provides the following endpoint:

  • cur.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

Amazon Web Services China Region Free Tier

You can use the Amazon Free Tier API to query programmatically your Free Tier usage data.

Free Tier tracks your monthly usage data for all free tier offers that are associated with your Amazon Web Services account. You can use the Free Tier API to filter and show only the data that you want.

Service endpoint

The Free Tier API provides the following endpoint:

  • https://freetier.cn-northwest-1.api.amazonwebservices.com.cn

For more information, see Using the Amazon Free Tier in the Amazon Billing User Guide.

Amazon Price List

The Amazon Price List API is a centralized and convenient way to programmatically query Amazon for services, products, and pricing information. The Amazon 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 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

Use GetServices without a service code to retrieve the service codes for all Amazon Web 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.

You can use the following endpoints for the Amazon Price List API:

  • Amazon Price List Bulk API: https://pricing.cn-northwest-1.amazonaws.com.cn

  • Amazon Price List Query API: https://api.pricing.cn-northwest-1.amazonaws.com.cn

For more information, see Using the Amazon Price List API in the Amazon Billing User Guide.