Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions,
see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China
(PDF).
Understanding the Cost and Usage Dashboard
The Cost and Usage Dashboard is an easy to deploy, secure, and pre-built dashboard powered
by Amazon QuickSight, and inspired from the Cloud Intelligence
Dashboards (CID) open source project. The Cost and Usage Dashboard includes a subset
of the summary visuals without the resource-level views from the CUDOS dashboard, which is one of the six Cloud Intelligence Dashboards. The Cost and
Usage Dashboard brings the benefits of the CUDOS solution into an Amazon Billing and Cost Management console feature that
is easy to set up, and frees you from maintaining the underlying infrastructure, such as Amazon
Athena views or Amazon Glue crawlers. You can deploy the Cost and Usage Dashboard from the
Data Exports page in the Amazon Billing and Cost Management console within minutes. CID involves Amazon
CloudFormation template-based deployment. For information on setting up the complete CID
solution, see Amazon well architected labs.
The following table summarizes the differences between a Cost and Usage Dashboard and Cloud
Intelligence Dashboards (CID):
| Feature |
Cost and Usage Dashboard |
Cloud Intelligence Dashboards |
| Deployment |
Seamless deployment from Amazon console |
CloudFormation, Command Line, or Terraform |
| Deployment options for Amazon Organizations |
In management account only |
In management account or delegated linked account |
| Multiple Amazon Organizations aggregation |
No |
Yes |
| High-level cost and usage insights |
Yes |
Yes |
| Resource-level details |
No |
Yes |
| Reserved Instances and Savings Plans insights |
No |
Yes |
| Supported data sources |
Cost and Usage Summary (dashboard view) |
Cost and Usage Report (CUR), Compute Optimizer, Trusted Advisor, Cost Anomaly
Detection |