Overview of cost management capabilities in Amazon Q Developer - Amazon Cost Management
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Overview of cost management capabilities in Amazon Q Developer

Amazon Q Developer provides powerful capabilities to help you understand and optimize your Amazon costs. These capabilities include:

  • Cost analysis: Analyze your historical and forecasted Amazon cost data from Cost Explorer.

  • Cost optimization: Identify and implement cost-saving opportunities from Cost Optimization Hub, Amazon Compute Optimizer, and Savings Plans and reservation recommendations.

Both capabilities use generative AI and large language models (LLMs) to interpret your questions, retrieve relevant cost data, and provide easy-to-understand, conversational responses. With each response, Amazon Q Developer displays the specific API parameters that were used, so you can understand exactly how Amazon Q Developer retrieved your data, and links to matching views in the Amazon Management console. If the response isn’t immediately useful, you can ask follow-up questions to expand on the initial response. The cost analysis capability in Amazon Q Developer uses the context from your current conversation to create follow-up responses.

Cost analysis

The cost analysis capability in Amazon Q Developer works with Cost Explorer. You can ask questions about your Amazon costs and receive answers in natural language that reflect the actual costs of your Amazon account. For example, if you ask Amazon Q Developer a question such as “What services did I spend the most on last month?”, it will provide a response similar to the following:

The Amazon services with the highest costs for your account last month were:

  1. Amazon Relational Database Service: $2,595.55 (36.65% of total cost)

  2. EC2 - Other: $1,222.71 (17.26% of total cost)

  3. Amazon QuickSight: $1,006.32 (14.21% of total cost)

  4. Amazon OpenSearch Service: $695.07 (9.81% of total cost)

  5. Amazon ElastiCache: $482.11 (6.81% of total cost)

  6. Amazon Elastic Load Balancing: $269.05 (3.80% of total cost)

  7. Amazon Supply Chain: $208.32 (2.94% of total cost)

  8. Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes: $148.80 (2.10% of total cost)

  9. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud: $141.50 (2.00% of total cost)

  10. Amazon Glue: $67.57 (0.95% of total cost)

The cost analysis capability uses data from the following Cost Explorer APIs: GetCostAndUsage, GetCostForecast, GetDimensionValues, GetCostCategories, and GetTags.

Cost optimization

The cost optimization capability in Amazon Q Developer works with Cost Optimization Hub, Amazon Compute Optimizer, and Savings Plans and reservation recommendations. You can ask questions about cost optimization opportunities in your Amazon account and receive answers in natural language that reflect actual cost-saving recommendations. For example, if you ask Amazon Q Developer a question such as “What are my top cost optimization opportunities?” it will provide a response similar to the following:

You have substantial opportunities to optimize your Amazon costs, with 374 recommendations, totaling $33,479.82, spanning multiple resource types.

  1. EC2 Auto Scaling Groups: $19,412.63 (10 recommendations)

  2. Compute Savings Plans: $8,788.76 (101 recommendations)

  3. RDS DB Instances: $2,160.07 (4 recommendations)

  4. RDS Reserved Instances: $1,666.73 (54 recommendations)

  5. OpenSearch Reserved Instances: $335.95 (12 recommendations)

  6. EBS Volumes: $293.48 (22 recommendations)

  7. ElastiCache Reserved Instances: $259.62 (6 recommendations)

  8. EC2 Instances: $153.28 (2 recommendations)

  9. RDS DB Instance Storage: $150.00 (1 recommendation)

  10. SageMaker Savings Plans: $137.20 (12 recommendations)

  11. ECS Services: $65.71 (2 recommendations)

  12. DynamoDB Reserved Capacity: $56.38 (148 recommendations)

The cost optimization capability uses data from the following APIs:

  • Cost Optimization Hub: GetRecommendation, ListRecommendations, ListRecommendationSummaries

  • Compute Optimizer: GetAutoScalingGroupRecommendations, GetEBSVolumeRecommendations, GetEC2InstanceRecommendations, GetECSServiceRecommendations, GetRDSDatabaseRecommendations, GetLambdaFunctionRecommendations, GetIdleRecommendations, GetEffectiveRecommendationPreferences

  • Cost Explorer: GetReservationPurchaseRecommendation, GetSavingsPlansPurchaseRecommendation

Getting started

Prerequisites

  • Ensure you have the appropriate permissions to use Amazon Q Developer, Amazon Cost Explorer, Amazon Cost Optimization Hub, and Amazon Savings Plans and reservation recommendations. For details, see Security and privacy.

  • To use the cost analysis capability in Amazon Q Developer, you must first opt in to Cost Explorer. To opt in to Cost Explorer, open the Billing and Cost Management console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/costmanagement/. Once you’ve opted in to Cost Explorer, it can take up to 24 hours for your cost data to be available.

  • To use the cost optimization capability in Amazon Q Developer, you must first opt in to Cost Optimization Hub. To opt in to Cost Optimization Hub, open the Cost Optimization Hub console page at https://console.amazonaws.cn/costmanagement/home#/cost-optimization-hub, and then choose Enroll. Once you’ve opted in to Cost Optimization Hub, it can take up to 24 hours for recommendations to be calculated.

To start a conversation with Amazon Q Developer

  1. Log in to the Amazon Management console at https://console.aws.amazon.com.

  2. Choose the Amazon Q icon on the right side of the console.

  3. Ask a question about your costs, such as “What were my costs last month?” or “How can I lower my Amazon bill?”.

Pricing

The cost analysis and cost optimization capabilities are included with Amazon Q Developer. For information about Amazon Q Developer pricing, see Amazon Q Developer pricing.