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Demo: AWS billing and cost management

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Demo: AWS billing and cost management

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- [Instructor] In this demo, we're going to take a look at how to manage costs using the Billing and Cost Management dashboard. Now, not every administrator will automatically have access to the Billing and Cost Management. This is something you'll have to set up. And if you think about it, it kind of makes sense. I don't want every administrator having access to our company's billing and payments, the bills, the credit cards, and so on and so forth. Once you open up the Billing and Cost Management console, you can take a look at the cost by looking at, number one, the Cost Explorer. The Cost Explorer will give you a nice breakdown, the yearly cost, average monthly cost, the number of services that you're using. If I scroll down in the middle, you can see, as I highlight one of the months, it breaks down where my money went. On the right, I can create report parameters and say exactly what I want to take a look at. I also have Cost Anomaly Detection, which allows me to actually report…

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