How to disable Cost Explorer?

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I'm going crazy with this one. I shut down all usage of every service a year ago. Yet I'm still getting billed every month for a few dollars. And all the charges are from cost explorer itself. The only active reports I have there are all locked and undeletable. Somehow the service that is supposed to save money is the only thing charging me.

I'm about to nuke my account because there does not seem to be any way to disable the service. Very frustrated. Any help would be great.

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Do you have Hourly and Resource Level Data turned on in Cost Explorer? Go to The Cost Explorer console and scroll down on the left to Preferences. If this is enabled, this might be why you are seeing charges

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/aws-cost-explorer-supports-hourly-resource-level-granularity/

If you go to Cost Explorer, Filter by Service: "Cost Explorer", and then Group by: "Usage Type", you will see "xxx-CostDataStorage ($)" if you scroll down below the chart which validates this is the Hourly and Resource Level Data charge.

Also, if you have Cost and Usage Reports enabled, you will still be billed for the CUR storage at standard S3 rates. You can go to the Billing console and remove and Cost and Usage Reports as well, and delete the data in the bucket if you no longer need it.

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Matt-B
con risposta 2 anni fa
  • Following your instructions, instead, all the charges are for 'USE1-APIRequest'.

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If you are accessing Cost Explorer via API, then you will be billed for those API requests (Using cost explorer through the console is free). See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/latest/userguide/ce-what-is.html and https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/pricing/

So you will need to check and see if something is using the Cost Explorer API. If you have CloudTrail turned on, you should be able to see where it is coming from. See: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/logging-using-cloudtrail.html

Also see the different API call available https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/latest/APIReference/API_Operations.html

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Matt-B
con risposta 2 anni fa
  • I do not have cloudtrail enabled. I have also never written code to access the cost explorer by API. And I have no code deployed on AWS now.

  • Have you integrated with any third party cost management tools? If you don't have cloudtrail enabled, you can enable it following the link above to track down where the API calls are coming from and which Access Keys are being used.

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Hi, I have a similar problem, and I have a sneaky suspicion it's the AWS activity itself. In my case, I federated my accounts into an organisation and the master account presents all the budgeting/cost explorer data. And to do that, master accounts need to query the sandbox account. And the sandbox account noted $10 worth of API calls... Therefore managing the accounts became more expensive than the accounts themselves :) AWS magic for you. I have no other scripts/tools to monitor that -only federation + budget alarms.

Kind regards Dave

Grendel
con risposta 10 mesi fa

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