Cloudability Analyzing S3 costs

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You can get a breakdown of AWS S3 costs in your account by adding a report filter for Service Name = AWS S3 .You also customize the report to include the Service Name, Usage Type and Item Description dimensions and the Total Invoiced Cost, Blended Rate and Usage Quantity metrics to get the most detail.

Learn more about customizing reports .

The scenario

AWS Billing for S3 Requests is broken into three tiers that indicate the type of request:

Tier 1 = PUT, COPY, POST, or LIST requests
Tier 2 = GET and other requests
Tier 3 = Glacier Archive and Restore Requests

The solution

If you tag your S3 buckets with a name, then costs will be associated with that tag. This includes S3 storage costs, Tier 1-3 requests, and data transfer. Cloudability will report an individual line item for each distinct tag value if you add the Tag as a report dimension. For more information, see Tag Explorer .

Further information

For more information, see Frequently used dimensions and metrics and our Glossary of cost dimensions and metrics .