Summary and Quiz

Get a refresher of what you’ve learned in the “AWS Billing and Cost Management” section, and take a short quiz to validate your knowledge.

In this lesson, we’ll summarize what we’ve learned so far in this chapter and test our knowledge of the AWS services we learned about with a short quiz.

Summary

Here’s a summary of the key takeaways from this chapter:

AWS Billing and Cost Management

  • AWS Billing and Cost Management is an expansive AWS service for managing billing and cost details, encompassing several services that allow us to view bills, explore costs, set budgets, generate financial reports, make saving plans, detect cost anomalies for AWS, and much more.

  • By default, IAM users cannot access the Billing and Cost Management dashboard even with the required permissions. Intervention from the root user is required to enable access for IAM users.

AWS Cost Explorer

The AWS Cost Explorer service helps visualize, understand, and manage AWS costs and usage. Here are some key ...