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Explanation

Understanding AWS Cost Visibility Challenges

In big Architectural designs, AWS Cloud Architects tend to segregate resources via multi AWS Accounts environment/Landing Zone environment.

Manual Cost visibility, comparison, and Reconciliation, versus these multi accounts, become overwhelming as we go. based on how many accounts you have and months you attend to compare.

Even in a tiny Architectural design, Manual Comparing the current cost of all consumied Services agianest the months before, become overwheming, based on the how many services you consiume and months you intend to compare.

How eraXplor Addresses These Challenges

eraXplor is a CLI tool deliver an automatic way to aggregate cost data based on user inputs and export these data into CSV format.

  • Aggregate cost data per AWS Accounts, Monthly or Daily.
  • Aggregate cost data per AWS Services. Monthly or Daily.
  • Aggregate cost data per AWS Purchase Type. Monthly or Daily.
  • Aggregate cost data per AWS Usage Type. Monthly or Daily.
  • Aggregate cost data per composite Account + Service + Purchase Type + Usage Type. Monthly or Daily.
  • Export data in reports, CVS format.
  • Suport AWS profile Credintials.
  • Cross-platform CLI interface.

Key Features

  • ✅ Account-Level Cost Breakdown: Monthly or daily unblended costs per linked account.
  • ✅ Service-Level Cost Breakdown: Monthly or daily unblended costs per Services.
  • ✅ Purchase Type-Level Cost Breakdown: Monthly or daily unblended costs per Purchase Type.
  • ✅ Usage Type-Level Cost Breakdown: Monthly or daily unblended costs per Usage Type.
  • ✅ Composite Cost Breakdown: Monthly or daily unblended costs per composite Account.
  • ✅ Flexible Date Ranges: Custom start/end dates with validation.
  • ✅ Multi-Profile Support: Works with all configured AWS profiles.
  • ✅ CSV Export: Ready-to-analyze reports in CSV format.
  • ✅ Cross-platform CLI Interface: Simple terminal-based workflow, and Cross OS platform.
  • ✅ Documentation Ready: Well explained documentations assest you kick start rapidly.
  • ✅ Open-Source: the tool is open-source under Apache 2.0 license, which enables your to enhance it for your purpose.

Why eraXplor?

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