To analyze your current spend on AWS, several major services and tools can help you gain insights into your usage and costs. Here’s a list of these essential AWS services:

1. AWS Cost Explorer

• Description: A tool that helps you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time.
• Features:
  • Provides charts and graphs for spending analysis.
  • Allows filtering and grouping of data by various dimensions (e.g., service, account, region).
  • Offers cost and usage forecasts.

2. AWS Budgets

• Description: Allows you to set custom cost and usage budgets and receive alerts when you exceed your thresholds.
• Features:
  • Create cost, usage, and reservation budgets.
  • Set up email or SNS notifications for budget alerts.
  • Monitor cost anomalies and trends.

3. AWS Billing and Cost Management Console

• Description: Central hub for managing billing and cost-related activities.
• Features:
  • View detailed billing information and invoices.
  • Manage payment methods and tax settings.
  • Access Cost and Usage Reports.

4. AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR)

• Description: Provides comprehensive information about your AWS costs and usage.
• Features:
  • Detailed billing data in CSV format.
  • Can be delivered to an S3 bucket for further analysis.
  • Integrates with Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon QuickSight for advanced analysis.

5. AWS Trusted Advisor

• Description: An online resource to help you reduce cost, increase performance, and improve security by optimizing your AWS environment.
• Features:
  • Cost optimization checks (e.g., underutilized EC2 instances).
  • Provides actionable recommendations.
  • Includes checks for performance, security, fault tolerance, and service limits.

6. AWS CloudWatch

• Description: A monitoring and observability service that provides data and actionable insights for AWS, hybrid, and on-premises applications and infrastructure resources.
• Features:
  • Collects and tracks metrics.
  • Collects and monitors log files.
  • Set alarms and automate actions based on your AWS resource metrics.

7. AWS Compute Optimizer

• Description: Analyzes the configuration and utilization metrics of your AWS resources to recommend optimal AWS resources.
• Features:
  • Provides recommendations for EC2 instances, ASGs, EBS volumes, and Lambda functions.
  • Helps in identifying underutilized and overprovisioned resources.

8. AWS Application Cost Profiler

• Description: Provides fine-grained cost breakdowns for applications and underlying resources.
• Features:
  • Detailed cost data for multi-tenant applications.
  • Insights into per-tenant resource usage and costs.
  • Helps in allocating costs accurately for shared resources.

9. AWS Savings Plans Recommendations

• Description: Offers flexible pricing models that provide significant savings on your AWS usage.
• Features:
  • Recommendations based on your historical usage.
  • Comparison between different plans and their savings.

10. AWS Trusted Advisor

• Description: Offers real-time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices.
• Features:
  • Cost optimization checks.
  • Provides actionable recommendations to save costs.

11. AWS Service Catalog

• Description: Allows organizations to create and manage catalogs of IT services that are approved for use on AWS.
• Features:
  • Helps in tracking and managing the usage of these services.
  • Facilitates cost tracking and management of approved services.

12. AWS Organizations

• Description: Allows you to centrally manage and govern your environment as you grow and scale your AWS resources.
• Features:
  • Consolidated billing across multiple AWS accounts.
  • Access to cost management tools at an organizational level.
  • Enable cost allocation tags across accounts.

By leveraging these tools, you can effectively monitor, analyze, and optimize your AWS spending, ensuring you get the best value from your AWS resources.