Creating a bill estimate - Amazon Cost Management
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Creating a bill estimate

This section outlines how to generate a bill estimate.

Prerequisites

The following procedure assumes that you have already completed the Creating a bill scenario process.

Procedure

To create a bill estimate

  1. Open the Pricing Calculator console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/costmanagement/ .

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Pricing Calculator.

  3. In the Bill scenarios of the Bill estimate tab, the scenario you want to generate a bill estimate from.

  4. Choose Create.

  5. In the Create a bill estimate prompt, you can do the following:

    • Give your bill estimate a name.

    • Add key and value tag to your estimate.

  6. Choose Save.

While we are creating your bill estimate, the status shows In progress. When your bill estimate is ready, the status will show Saved. You will also receive an email notification when your bill estimate is ready.

Note

Depending on the size of your workloads, generating a bill estimate can take between 20 minutes to 12 hours.