Understanding widget types
Dashboards help you monitor and analyze your Amazon costs, usage, and resource commitments. Two types of widgets are available: custom widgets that you configure from scratch to track costs, usage, and commitment metrics, and predefined widgets that come with preset cost breakdowns over time.
| Widget type | Widget name | Widget description |
|---|---|---|
| Custom | Cost | Visualizes your aggregate costs across all Amazon services, including breakdown by service, Region, or custom tags. |
| Usage | Visualizes your aggregate usage across all Amazon services, helping you track resource consumption patterns. | |
| Budget | Displays your Amazon Budgets in a table format. You can filter budgets by name, threshold, and type to monitor budget performance directly within your dashboard. | |
| Savings Plans utilization | Shows how well you're using your Savings Plans commitments, including unused and partially used commitments. | |
| Savings Plans coverage | Shows what percentage of your usage is covered by Savings Plans. | |
| Reservation utilization | Shows how well you're using your Reserved Instances. | |
| Reservation coverage | Shows what percentage of your usage is covered by Reserved Instances. | |
| Predefined | Monthly costs by service | Visualizes your aggregate monthly costs across all Amazon services for the last six months. |
| Monthly costs by linked account | Visualizes your aggregate monthly costs across all Amazon linked accounts for the last six months. | |
| Monthly EC2 running hour costs | Visualizes your monthly EC2 running hour costs for the last six months. | |
| Daily costs | Visualizes your daily Amazon costs for the last six months. | |
| Amazon Marketplace costs | Visualizes your Amazon Marketplace costs for the last six months. |
Each of these widgets can be customized to show the data most relevant to your needs, allowing you to create comprehensive and insightful dashboards.