Questions tagged [cost-management]

Use this tag for questions related to budgeting, cost analysis, cost management or cost calculation in any of various programming-related contexts, especially resource management and on-demand cloud computing.

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  • Use this tag for questions related to budgeting, cost analysis, cost management or cost calculation in any of various programming-related contexts, especially resource management and on-demand cloud computing.

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How do I set a cost limit in Google Developers Console

Some functions in the Google Developers Console, like the Analytics API, are free until you reach a quota. Other functions, like Google Cloud Storage, create costs from the first click. When I upload a file under…
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Costs of enabling versioning in Amazon S3

I have a question about the costs of versioning in Amazon S3 that don't seem to be present in the guide. There is a cost for every PUT/POST, but for versioned objects(especially when you keep older versions in alternative storage such as glacier)…
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AWS Glue pricing against AWS EMR

I am doing some pricing comparison between AWS Glue against AWS EMR so as to chose between EMR & Glue. I have considered 6 DPUs (4 vCPUs + 16 GB Memory) with ETL Job running for 10 minutes for 30 days. Expected crawler requests is assumed to be 1…
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ECS Fargate Pricing

I'd like to make sure I'm interpreting AWS's ECS Fargate pricing model correctly when compared to an m4.large EC2 instance (2vCPU, 8GB Mem) running non stop (even dropping to 1% cpu/mem utilization) for an entire month (730hrs). # Monthly cost…
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Minimise cost of reallocating individuals

I have individuals that belong to different categories, they are located in different zones, these populations are expected to grow from the population value below to the demand value. population_and_demand_by_category_and_zone <- tibble::tribble( …
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Can I set a hard limit to Google Cloud Platform spend? if yes, how?

I'd like to make sure I don't spend too much money in GCP (Google Cloud Platform) usage, but I'm not sure of the way to do so, if such a way exist. So I tried creating budgets in GCP, but I doubt these are hard cap, since the documentation and this…
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How to enable hourly granularity for cost and usage data in AWS?

I am trying to call get-cost-and-usage api of AWS to generate hourly report. But, i am getting an error around enabling an opt-in only feature. aws ce get-cost-and-usage --time-period '{"Start": "2020-06-10T00:00:00Z", "End":…
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Performance of gzipped json vs efficient binary serialization

JSON and Gzip is a simple way to serialize data. These are widely implemented across programming languages. Also this representation is portable across systems (is it?). My question is whether json+gzip is good enough (less then 2x cost) compared to…
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How to reduce Azure Application Insight cost

Is there any way/trick/workaround to reduce Azure Application Insight cost? I have a very large volume of data (around 20M) ingestion every day. Data sampling set 5%, Even after Daily 5GB of data ingestion in Application Insights. Application…
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Azure Front Door generates a large amount of bandwidth

Last month I noticed a large increase of my Azure bill due to outgoing bandwidth. I used 1800GB of outgoing data vs ~200GB in previous periods. After some research I found that this was caused by the Azure Front Door service that I enabled last…
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how to send monthly saved report in AWS Cost Explorer

I have some saved report in AWS cost explorer, is it possible to automatic send it monthly via email?
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Cost Calulating with AWS ECS Container

I have a question regarding cost structure on AWS ECS. How can I know which service on a container is "spending" the most? I don't see an option to tag containers. Any ideas are welcome, I didn't find any good solution off AWS websites. Thanks in…
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Cloud Run Billing Report GCP not shown when filtering by label

I've added labels to the projects in Google Cloud Run GCP, so that I can view the cost filtered by env label to the billing report ( key: env and value: prod ). Regardless of applying any label to Cloud Run, Cost Table does not show the service,…
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Not able to get Azure Billing Account Id

I need to get Usage Details at Billing Account Scope for that firstly I used this API but It returns an empty value. I used the Bearer Access token for hitting this API.Is anything other than this am I missed? Postman Request attached as screenshot
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How can I get the daily costs using the AWS CLI

Is it possible to get the daily costs using the AWS CLI tool? I am looking for an output similar to the information available via the Cost Explorer in the AWS Web Console. I need a simple way to quickly check the expenses in my AWS account for the…
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