// FINOPS · AWS COST EXPLORER

What this
platform costs.

Every service on this account, billed monthly, pulled straight from AWS Cost Explorer once a night and charted below. No estimates, no rounding up — the real number, published because a cloud engineer should be able to show you exactly what their infrastructure costs.

Fetching the latest billing data…

Guardrail

An AWS Budgets alarm watches this same spend and emails me at 80% of a $5/mo ceiling (actual) and 100% (forecast), so a surprise charge surfaces before the month closes.

Attribution

Every resource carries Project / Stack / ManagedBy tags via Terraform default_tags, so cost can be sliced by stack — the same discipline that makes this chart trustworthy makes a real org's bill legible.

Method

One ce:GetCostAndUsage call per night keeps the Cost Explorer API bill itself near zero. Read the build: FinOps write-up →