Viewing your Bill estimate - Amazon Cost Management
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Viewing your Bill estimate

This page describes the information displayed in the key sections of your Bill estimate. If you are part of an Amazon Organization, this page displays pre-tax cost and usage for your consolidated bill family. If you are a standalone account, this page displays pre-tax cost and usage for your account. For information about how to generate a bill estimate, see Creating a bill estimate.

Estimate section Description

Estimate details

Displays when the estimate was created, expiration date, and the Amazon Web Services account that created the estimate.

Bill impact

Displays the high-level estimate costs

  • Total historical bill

    If you're part of an Amazon organization, this is the pre-tax cost from the anniversary bill charges of your consolidated billing family. If you're a standalone account, this is the the pre-tax cost from the anniversary bill charges of your account.

  • Total estimated bill

    If you're part of an Amazon organization, this is the estimated cost for the consolidated billing family that includes your usage and commitment models. If you are a standalone account, this is the estimated cost that includes your usage and commitment models for your account. This cost is all charges net of all applicable discounts. This cost includes charges from all usage line items and commitments.

Net change for top impacted services

This charts displays a net cost comparison between your anniversary bill charges and your estimated costs for your Amazon services. If you have multiple services in your estimate, we will display the top seven services in the chart.

Changed usage lines per service

Displays how costs and usage have changed for each affected service. This includes service usage lines that were directly and indirectly modeled in your bill scenario. Indirect modeling in your bill scenario is usage that was affected by increased or decreased commitment coverage. We identify these changes by comparing service details between your original anniversary bill and the new bill estimate. The following list provides an overview of each column in this section:

  • Service > usage lines — Displays the service code, usage type, and operation.

  • Region — An Amazon Web Services Region, Wavelength zone, or Local zone where the usage line item is incurred.

  • Account — The Amazon Web Services account in your consolidated bill family that incurred this usage and cost.

  • Historical cost — The cost of this line from your anniversary bill. If historical cost is empty, this means that the usage line didn't exist in your anniversary bill. This might happen when you model a product (SKU) usage that you've never used before.

  • Modifications — The cost arising from direct modeling of this usage line. In some cases this cost can reflect changes arising from commitment coverage.

  • Commitments — This shows all commitment coverage for the usage lines. For example, if a usage line is covered by Savings Plans, this shows the sum of all Savings Plans negation that covers this line.

  • Discounts — The sum of any other discounts that has covered the usage line.

  • Estimated cost — The final pre-tax estimated cost of the usage line net of all commitments and discounts.

Savings Plans

This displays all active and modeled Savings Plans for the account. The State column only displays a New, Exisitng, Modified, or Configure status.

  • New — Savings Plans you have modeled in the bill scenario from which the estimate is created.

  • Existing — The active and non-expired Savings Plans in your account.

  • Excluded — Savings Plans that you have chosen to exclude from the estimate.

  • Configure — This requires you to set the parameter you want for your Savings Plans.

Reserved Instances

This displays all active and modeled Reserved Instances for the account. The State column only displays a New, Exisitng, Modified, or Configure status.

  • New — Reserved Instances you have modeled in the bill scenario from which the estimate is created.

  • Existing — The active and non-expired Reserved Instances in your account.

  • Excluded — Reserved Instances that you have chosen to exclude from the estimate.

  • Configure — This requires you to set the parameter you want for your Reserved Instances.