How do I Track Costs of Amazon S3 Cloud Objects?

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How do I Track Costs of Amazon S3 Cloud Objects?
March 18, 2022 at 9:48 pm Reply

Nir Rozenberg

Cost allocation tagging allows you to label AWS S3 buckets to more easily track usage and costs. Tags applied to S3 storage buckets help you organize or categorize billing as per tags. In order to use that you are required to sign up for AWS account bill with tag key values included. You can tag several resources with the same key tag and then you can configure billing to see the cost for that specific key tag. Check this how to guide that can help you - http://www.newvem.com/how-to-track-costs-of-amazon-s3-cloud-objects/

 

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March 19, 2022 at 12:07 pm Reply

Taral Shah

AWS provides detailed billing in csv format.

To track the cost of your S3 objects, as mentioned above, always tag them with key value pairs.

Also setup programmatic billing access and then download the excel, when available, to get the detailed cost.
The user can also write a customized program to download and parse the csv file and prepare the report for usage.
March 19, 2022 at 12:11 pm Reply

Tarun Dave

Is the above guideline applicable only to S3 or to all AWS products?
March 19, 2022 at 12:18 pm Reply

Taral Shah

Tarun,

Tagging is applicable to many AWS products. Refer to AWS guidelines for more information on tagging.
The user can use tagging to tag EC2, Auto Scaling, EBS, S3, VPC, Cloudformation and RDS.The user can also refer to the explaination from AWS for tagging and billing.

 
April 3, 2022 at 6:10 am Reply

Gaddy Barchana Lorand

Also check out Newvem’s business groups (www.newvem.com/support/business-groups-documentation/) feature.

It allows you to view cost of EC2 resources without having to tag the resources. For example you can group all the instances that use a specific security group or are behind a specific ELB, and then track the cost (and usage) of that group of resources.

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