AWS Cost Explorer now offers new Cost Comparison feature

AWS announces Cost Comparison, a new AWS Cost Explorer capability that helps customers understand cost changes between two months. Cost Comparison automatically detects significant cost changes between two months and surfaces the key factors driving these changes. With this launch, customers can now effortlessly gain insights into their monthly cost changes across their organization and quickly identify key drivers of spending changes.

Cost Comparison streamlines the time-consuming process of cost analysis by automatically identifying the most substantial cost changes across services, accounts, and Regions. It eliminates the need to switch between different views in Cost Explorer or export data to spreadsheets for manual comparison. The feature provides detailed breakdowns of cost drivers, including usage changes, credits, refunds, and volume discounts impacts. A new Top Trends widget on the AWS Billing and Cost Management console home page shows the top 10 cost variations between the previous two months. For deeper analysis, customers can use the new Compare view within AWS Cost Explorer. This view offers comprehensive cost analysis capabilities, with insights into cost drivers that reveal changes between any two selected months in usage, credits, refunds, and volume discount impacts.

Cost Comparison is available at no additional cost in all AWS commercial Regions, excluding AWS China Regions. To get started, customers can visit the AWS Billing and Cost Management console and view the Top Trends widget on the home page, or navigate to Cost Explorer and choose "Compare" in the Report Parameters panel. To learn more, see the AWS Cost Explorer documentation.