Understand codes for Amazon EC2 in billing and usage reports - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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Understand codes for Amazon EC2 in billing and usage reports

When you use Amazon EC2, we include related codes in your Amazon billing and usage reports. Reviewing these codes helps you understand your costs and usage patterns for Amazon EC2. Tracking and managing your expenses is essential for optimizing your costs.

The following tables describe the codes for Amazon EC2 that appear in your billing and usage reports. For a list of the Region codes used in the billing and usage reports, see Amazon Region billing codes.

Instances

Code Description Units
region-BoxUsage:instance-type The running time for On-Demand Instances. Hours
region-HostBoxUsage:instance-type The running time for instances on Dedicated Hosts. Hours
region-SpotUsage:instance-type The running time for Spot Instances. Hours

Bare metal instances

Code Description Units
region-BoxUsage:instance-family.metal The running time for bare metal On-Demand Instances. Hours
region-HostBoxUsage:instance-family.metal The running time for bare metal instances on Dedicated Hosts. Hours
region-SpotUsage:instance-family.metal The running time for bare metal Spot Instances. Hours

Dedicated Hosts

Code Description Units
region-HostUsage:host-type The time that Dedicated Hosts are provisioned. Hours
region-ReservedHostUsage:host-type The time that Dedicated Host Reservations are applied. Hours

Dedicated Instances

Code Description Units
region-DedicatedUsage:instance-type The running time for Dedicated Instances. Hours + per-Region fee

EBS optimization

Code Description Units
region-EBSOptimized:instance-type The time that EBS optimization is enabled. Hours

Capacity Reservations

Code Description Units
region-Reservation:instance-type The reserved instance time for Capacity Reservations. Hours
region-UnusedBox:instance-type The unused reserved instance time for Capacity Reservations. Hours
region-DedicatedRes:instance-type The reserved instance time for Dedicated Capacity Reservations. Hours
region-UnusedDed:instance-type The unused reserved instance time for Dedicated Capacity Reservations. Hours