Basic Information
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| English | AWS Billing and Cost Management |
| Chinese | AWS 账单与成本管理 |
| Japanese | AWS Billing and Cost Management（AWS 請求とコスト管理） |
| Exam frequency | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Often confused with | AWS Budgets / AWS Cost Explorer / AWS Pricing Calculator |
One-line summary
Review current charges, invoices, payment information, and cost-management entry points in one place.
Exam focus
- Use Billing for current charge and payment facts.
- Use Cost Explorer for historical analysis, Budgets for thresholds, and Pricing Calculator for pre-deployment estimates.
- Consolidated billing centralizes payment but does not merge member-account resources or identities.
Key takeaway
Current bills, invoices, and payments point to AWS Billing and Cost Management.
Billing, Bills, and Free Tier
An IAM user with AdministratorAccess may still lack billing-data access. The root user must enable IAM user and role access to billing information in account settings; the IAM user or role still needs appropriate billing permissions afterward.
- Billing Dashboard: month-to-date cost, current-month forecast, last month’s total, and monthly breakdown.
- Bills: choose a month and use charges by service to locate service-level usage and charges.
- Free Tier: compare current and forecast usage; investigate and stop unneeded billable resources when forecast use exceeds an allowance.