# AWS Cost Explorer Reviews **Vendor:** Amazon Web Services (AWS) **Category:** [Cloud Cost Management Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-cost-management) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 14 ## About AWS Cost Explorer AWS Cost Explorer lets you dive deeper into your cost and usage data to identify trends, pinpoint cost drivers, and detect anomalies, completely free of charge. ## AWS Cost Explorer Reviews ### 1. AWS cost explorer for infra cost estimates **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** MAHESH K. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 01, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Cost Explorer?** The cost explorer help to find the cost of services that can charged over a period of time at beginning it self so that we can plan accordingly **What do you dislike about AWS Cost Explorer?** Not much but it did not give much options **What problems is AWS Cost Explorer solving and how is that benefiting you?** It help us to find the cost of infra and decide upon and decide what can be used and what price point ### 2. AWS Cost Explorer User **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sunney S. | Senior Sql Server developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Cost Explorer?** It provides correct data to analyze and view cost. It maintains data history. It is easy to use. The preconfigured views saves time and money to analyze data. It is very secure and reliable. **What do you dislike about AWS Cost Explorer?** I think cost effective architecture should be redesigned with an aim to provide effective cloud solutions meeting the needs of various clients. The automated templates should be increased . **What problems is AWS Cost Explorer solving and how is that benefiting you?** It gives clear idea about AWS Cost. It helps to maintain the cost of resources. It is very effective to analyze and review cost. The previous data review also help to make decision for future. ### 3. Analyze and optimize the your AWS cost, using cost explorer **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Monish K. | Snowflake busted up our performance, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2020 **What do you like best about AWS Cost Explorer?** We can analyze our AWS cost by slicing and dissing, We can filter the cost based on many things, resource, tag etc , using which it is easier to identify the cost factor and try to optimize it, it has different types of analytic grapes and chart which helps in visualizing the cost trend, cost values gets updated almost in real time, It gives a understanding and proof of the billing, **What do you dislike about AWS Cost Explorer?** Navigating to the cost explorer is quit confusing at the beginning, it wold be better if it cold be accessed easily filter UI could be improved, example it i select a tag and i should be allowed to select multi values for it, but now it auto applies ones i select one value, some things like this could be improved **Recommendations to others considering AWS Cost Explorer:** You need a way to analyze your AWS cost, then Cost Explorer Helps a lot **What problems is AWS Cost Explorer solving and how is that benefiting you?** we are a product pricing company, we use Cost explorer to see if we have any opportunity to reduce the AWS cost we have achieved some major cost optimizations ### 4. Budget done right! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Cost Explorer?** I like that it lets me explore different options and search by tags. When I tag my Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud instances, I would want to tag them and see pricing per each tag. That comes really useful for me. **What do you dislike about AWS Cost Explorer?** I dislike a report function which is very inconvenient. CSV file can be imported but really hard to integrate with any of Databases on Amazon Web Services to search and run queries. However, I have found a solution using Anthena which works just fine for me. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Cost Explorer:** I would say it definitely headed into the right direction and I would love to see it implemented better. The data that it gives is what matters the most and handling this data could be implemented better and that's what I am hoping to see in the future. In the marketplace, there are many applications being used and those which are used very frequently I believe should be implemented in Cost Explorer right away because that is what people really need. I would like to get a better visualization with the data so sometimes I am using 3rd party software such as Tableau. Apart from that, AWS Trusted Advisor should be configured with AWS Cost Explorer so it would help customers to see the connection between their spending and best practices. **What problems is AWS Cost Explorer solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am trying to track down the price problem in the company when Amazon Web Services are not executed nor utilized correctly. ### 5. Good tool to analyze all ongoing cost for services you are using on AWS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vinh H. | Project Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Cost Explorer?** - Many filter options to allowing viewing cost by services, accounts, running hours and usage, monthly or daily - The charts help visualize the trends of cost (increasing / decreasing) - Allow saving reports filter so I don't need to set same filter next time **What do you dislike about AWS Cost Explorer?** - Sometime getting errors when saving reports - Only have 2 type of charts (bar and line). Better to have more **Recommendations to others considering AWS Cost Explorer:** Good tool that shows you a detail view about your ongoing trending AWS cost, which helps you understand clearly and know how to fine-tune your service usages in AWS to make if more efficiency. **What problems is AWS Cost Explorer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Im using it to have a better view of my company 's ongoing cost and its trend. It helps us to understand current situation of AWS usage in order to improve and optimize it. ### 6. AWS Cost Explorer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sherif W. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Cost Explorer?** You can get charts and reports about what you paid and in what as well as providing filtering on dates and on what did you use. **What do you dislike about AWS Cost Explorer?** I think the UI could be made better as it have many details while it can be divided into more subpages. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Cost Explorer:** I recommend using it as you will keep track of what you are paying for as well as getting reports which is useful for payments or keeping track of budgets. **What problems is AWS Cost Explorer solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm using it to know the costs that I'm paying for by seeing the reports generated for each month or for duration and filtering for usage of running or storage. ### 7. Great service but a little bit pricy **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Josue D. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 04, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Cost Explorer?** The customer service and the free trial for about a year. You can get a free space for a period of time unless you overpass the limit they give you. **What do you dislike about AWS Cost Explorer?** Is kinda complicated to locate everything and to understand everything unless you are a programer **Recommendations to others considering AWS Cost Explorer:** You need to have a very good understanding of programming and coding languages, etc to use AWS **What problems is AWS Cost Explorer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Hosting services for my startup. ### 8. AWS Cost Explorer from a student POV **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 24, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Cost Explorer?** I like that it gives me detailed information about the billing for different period of times, it also has a nice interactive dashboard stating all the used services - for how long and various rates. **What do you dislike about AWS Cost Explorer?** Sometimes, new services don't show up fast enough - so I may need to wait for a day or something until it's propagated through the system. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Cost Explorer:** I recommend using AWS cost explorer for anyone using the AWS services and having a limited budget, as the dashboard is very user-friendly and provides limit alerts and information. **What problems is AWS Cost Explorer solving and how is that benefiting you?** It provides me with up to date billing information which helps me managae my needs and usage of the various AWS services - most importantly the EC2 instances -. ### 9. AWS Cost Explorer **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sara M. | Exercise Specialist, Medical Practice, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Cost Explorer?** Like all amazon companies, it is very efficient, concise and a great tool for all companies to use. Great customer service! **What do you dislike about AWS Cost Explorer?** Nothing so far, it is a great tool, still learning new features, not a whole lot of new changes coming around which is a good thing **What problems is AWS Cost Explorer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Great for keeping all aspects of our business in order, especially since we are in healthcare and it is a small business, so cost management etc is not our top priority all the time ### 10. Very Useful **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carlos L. | Gerente de TI, Information Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Cost Explorer?** The ease of controlling the costs by separating by departments greatly helps the monthly control, the reports of that tool greatly help the financial team to define the accounting separation between the areas, **What do you dislike about AWS Cost Explorer?** I believe it is possible to improve, add the separation of costs per service with in addition to tags. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Cost Explorer:** Controlling your costs at AWS is essential to the success of your business. **What problems is AWS Cost Explorer solving and how is that benefiting you?** The use of infra by service is an important way to speed up deliveries, but only with this tool is it possible to control and separate costs by area. ### 11. Great overview, simple interface **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Cost Explorer?** Cost Explorer is great to see the cost of different components within our AWS infrastructure and services. Seeing the breakout by day and available filters made it very simple and intuitive. **What do you dislike about AWS Cost Explorer?** I would love to group services together so I can better isolate costs into groups (so I can better assign by client or platform). **Recommendations to others considering AWS Cost Explorer:** It is easy to get lost when starting/stopping AWS resources. Use it early and often to stay in control of AWS footprint. **What problems is AWS Cost Explorer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Understand our cost and run rates in our AWS environments. We were able to calculate daily run rates to better plan and forecast future costs. ### 12. AWS Cost Explorer **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 07, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Cost Explorer?** The reporting style and metrics that able to be created from default reports. Deep dive with filtering functionality and forecasting **What do you dislike about AWS Cost Explorer?** Would like to be able to customize reports more or develop my own **What problems is AWS Cost Explorer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reviewing costs and usage reports have helped us to be able to understand cost trends so we can be more efficient and cost-effective ### 13. AWS Cloud explorer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Cost Explorer?** Easy to use interface as well as feature rich **What do you dislike about AWS Cost Explorer?** A bit detailing around cost controlling should be linked directly **Recommendations to others considering AWS Cost Explorer:** there are 3rd party services or tools but this is good enough for early users **What problems is AWS Cost Explorer solving and how is that benefiting you?** tracking and keeping cost under control ### 14. Easy to use, informative **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hubert L. | Engineering Lead, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Cost Explorer?** Daily usage reports, and the ability to break down series by tags, instance type, reservation type, etc. **What do you dislike about AWS Cost Explorer?** Nothing really to dislike. Best cloud spend management there is. **What problems is AWS Cost Explorer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reducing total infrastructure spend - being able to see how costs change day to day really helps realize the impact of changes. ## AWS Cost Explorer Discussions - [What is AWS Cost Explorer used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-aws-cost-explorer-used-for) - [View AWS Cost Explorer pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-cost-explorer/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-14+11%3A47%3A38+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=2bbe330f-8250-4ee6-ae38-70994c8cc8bb&secure%5Btoken%5D=fe65e9a68a992d4bc4b1505c4717978cd90b0af6d2efe818ee59dc036958048c&format=llm_user) ## AWS Cost Explorer Features **Operations** - Scheduling - Automation - Multi-Cloud Management - Usage Monitoring **Cost Optimization** - Spend Forecasting and Optimization - Recommendations - Spend Tracking **Administration** - Reporting - Dashboards and Visualizations - Compliance **Agentic AI - Cloud Cost Management** - Autonomous Task Execution - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making ## Top AWS Cost Explorer Alternatives - [IBM Cloudability](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-cloudability/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (202 reviews) - [Azure Cost Management and Billing](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-cost-management-and-billing/reviews) - 3.8/5.0 (12 reviews) - [VMware Tanzu CloudHealth](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-tanzu-cloudhealth/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (11 reviews)