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Getting started with Amazon Pricing Calculator

Before you can use Amazon Pricing Calculator, you must make sure that you have properly set up your Amazon Web Services account and user permissions. For instructions about how to set up your Amazon Web Services account and permissions, see Getting started with Amazon Cost Management.

Accounts supported by Amazon Pricing Calculator

The following Amazon Web Services account types are supported by Pricing Calculator:

  • Standalone Amazon Web Services account — A standalone Amazon Web Services account that doesn't have Amazon Organizations enabled.

  • Member account of an organization — An Amazon Web Services account that's a member of an Amazon organization.

  • Management account of an organization — An Amazon Web Services account that administers an Amazon organization.

For more information about Amazon Organizations, see What is Amazon Organizations?

Accessing Pricing Calculator

You can access the Pricing Calculator within the Amazon Billing and Cost Management Console and through a set of APIs. You can also access the calculator through the Amazon SDK and CLI.

For member accounts to create estimates using discounted rates, the management account of the organization must enable access to use discounts from the Pricing Calculator console preferences. If the management account hasn't enabled access, the estimates default to public pricing rates.

Important

  • You must enable Cost Explorer to allow Pricing Calculator to import your historical Amazon workload usage. For instructions on how to import your historical workload usage, see Adding historical usage to my workload estimate.

  • Pricing Calculator will override any Cost Management preferences you have set, such as Linked account discounts. That means that if After_discount is selected, you will be able to see netUnblendedRate based cost, irrespective of your Linked account discount preference.

  • For access to the Pricing Calculator console, you must migrate your policies from under aws-portal to fine-grained access controls. For information about how to do this, see Migrating access control for Amazon Billing.

  • Amazon Billing Conductor (ABC) proforma data views aren't available in Pricing Calculator. If your member accounts have access to Pricing Calculator, they will be able to view chargeable cost and usage depending on their rate type preference setting in Pricing Calculator.