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Analyzing AWS Costs with SQL

One of the things nobody loves about AWS is billing. Mainly because the more your application is cloud-native, the more unpredictable your bill will become. All that autoscaling and serverless saves you a lot of money, but if there is a massive spike in your app usage, there will also be a spike in your AWS bill. That’s usually a good thing because if you’ve done it right, the opposite is also true, and low traffic means lower costs.

Either way, the more you use AWS, the less useful the default monthly bill becomes. Maybe you have several environments (production, staging, dev, …), or perhaps you have multiple applications. The aggregated view simply becomes a problem, and you start to wonder how much each of those applications costs separately. Then you discover AWS cost allocation tags and cost explorer that can group by service or tags, which also lasts a while before you become unhappy again.

The problem is always the same - the data is not granular enough. Can we somehow get more granular data?

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