Amazon Billing And Cost Management

aid: amazon-billing-and-cost-management
name: Amazon Billing And Cost Management
description: AWS Billing and Cost Management is a suite of tools and APIs that enables organizations to view, analyze, forecast,
  budget, and optimize their AWS spending. It includes AWS Cost Explorer for cost analysis, AWS Budgets for budget tracking
  and alerts, Cost Anomaly Detection for ML-powered anomaly identification, Cost Categories for spend organization, and the
  AWS Price List API for programmatic pricing queries. The suite supports consolidated billing across AWS Organizations and
  chargeback/showback workflows.
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Billing
- Cost Management
- Cost Explorer
- Budgets
- Cost Optimization
- FinOps
- Amazon Web Services
- AWS
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-billing-and-cost-management/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-16'
modified: '2026-06-20'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: amazon-billing-and-cost-management:aws-cost-explorer-api
  name: AWS Cost Explorer API
  description: The AWS Cost Explorer API provides programmatic access to cost and usage data. Query aggregated or granular
    cost data, filter and group by service, account, tag, or region, and retrieve cost forecasts and rightsizing recommendations.
  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/latest/userguide/ce-api.html
  baseURL: https://ce.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Cost Explorer
  - Cost Analysis
  - Forecasting
  - Cost Optimization
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/latest/userguide/ce-api.html
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/latest/APIReference/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-billing-and-cost-management/refs/heads/main/openapi/aws-cost-explorer-api-openapi.yml
  - type: SpectralRuleset
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-billing-and-cost-management/refs/heads/main/spectral/ruleset.yml
  - type: Capabilities
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-billing-and-cost-management/refs/heads/main/capabilities/capabilities.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-billing-and-cost-management/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/vocabulary.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/amazon-billing-and-cost-management-aws-cost-explorer-api-overlay.yaml
  contact:
  - FN: AWS Support
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/
  features:
  - name: Cost and Usage Queries
    description: Query cost and usage data with filtering by service, account, tag, region, and time range at daily or monthly
      granularity.
  - name: Cost Forecasting
    description: Generate cost forecasts for future time periods based on historical spending patterns.
  - name: Cost Anomaly Detection
    description: ML-powered detection of unusual spending patterns with configurable alerts and root cause analysis.
  - name: Rightsizing Recommendations
    description: Identify EC2 instance rightsizing opportunities to reduce costs without impacting performance.
  - name: Savings Plans Recommendations
    description: Get recommendations for Savings Plans purchases to reduce compute costs based on usage patterns.
  - name: Reservation Recommendations
    description: Receive recommendations for Reserved Instance purchases across EC2, RDS, Redshift, and other services.
  useCases:
  - name: FinOps Cost Analysis
    description: Build custom dashboards and reports querying cost and usage data by team, project, service, or environment
      using cost allocation tags.
  - name: Budget Tracking Automation
    description: Automate budget monitoring with programmatic budget creation, alert configuration, and cost anomaly subscriptions.
  - name: Chargeback and Showback
    description: Allocate and distribute AWS costs to internal teams and business units using cost categories and split charge
      rules.
  integrations:
  - name: AWS Organizations
    description: Consolidated billing and multi-account cost analysis
  - name: Amazon QuickSight
    description: Visualize cost and usage data with QuickSight dashboards
  - name: Amazon SNS
    description: Receive budget and anomaly alert notifications via SNS
  - name: AWS Lambda
    description: Trigger automated cost remediation workflows from budget actions
- aid: amazon-billing-and-cost-management:aws-budgets-api
  name: AWS Budgets API
  description: The AWS Budgets API enables programmatic creation and management of custom budgets that track cost, usage,
    coverage, and utilization. Supports budget actions that automatically respond when thresholds are exceeded.
  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/latest/userguide/budgets-managing-costs.html
  baseURL: https://budgets.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Budgets
  - Cost Tracking
  - Alerts
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/latest/userguide/budgets-managing-costs.html
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-billing-and-cost-management/refs/heads/main/openapi/aws-budgets-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/amazon-billing-and-cost-management-aws-budgets-api-overlay.yaml
- aid: amazon-billing-and-cost-management:aws-price-list-api
  name: AWS Price List API
  description: The AWS Price List API allows programmatic querying of AWS service pricing information in JSON or CSV format.
    Retrieve price lists for all AWS services, filter by region and attributes, and stay current with pricing changes via
    SNS notifications.
  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/price-changes.html
  baseURL: https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Pricing
  - Price List
  - Cost Estimation
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/price-changes.html
common:
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/amazon-billing-and-cost-management-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/amazon-billing-and-cost-management-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/amazon-billing-and-cost-management-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/amazon-billing-and-cost-management-authentication.yml
- type: Portal
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/
- type: Website
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/
- type: Console
  url: https://console.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/latest/userguide/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/pricing/
- type: FAQ
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/faqs/
- type: Blog
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws-cloud-financial-management/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/aws
- type: Contact
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/
- type: Packages
  url: packages/amazon-billing-and-cost-management-packages.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/amazon-billing-and-cost-management-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/amazon-billing-and-cost-management-security.txt
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/amazon-billing-and-cost-management-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/amazon-billing-and-cost-management-llms.txt
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/amazon-billing-and-cost-management-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/amazon-billing-and-cost-management-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/amazon-billing-and-cost-management-lifecycle.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com