AWS Cost Visibility

with Invoice Explorer

“The most impressive cost visibility tool we have seen for the AWS platform.” – Brian L., CIO

Overview

Are you frustrated with the lack of meaningful data and cost transparency behind AWS invoices? Are you tired of trying to figure out why your AWS costs keep rising each month? It’s not your fault. You simply don’t have access to the data you need to understand what is truly driving your costs.

Invoice Explorer is a stand-alone product that gives you full visibility and transparency into your AWS cost structure.

Create customizable drill-down invoice templates for deep insight into your AWS cost structure
Compare two invoices and see exactly what is driving the cost change
See how your AWS costs are trending over time
Customizable dashboards
Extensive cost and trend reporting

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Contact our sales team to learn more about Invoice Explorer.

Features

Customizable Invoice Templates

Have complete flexibility to organize and analyze your costs in a way that makes sense for your business. Each drag-and-drop template has full drill-down capabilities to break down costs all the way to the resource level. You can even incorporate all your AWS tags into your template. This allows you to create invoices by department, project, or even resource owner.

Create customizable drill-down invoice templates for deep insight into your AWS cost structure
Compare two invoices and see what is driving the cost change
See how your AWS costs are trending over time
Customizable dashboards
Extensive cost and trend reporting

Invoice Variance Analysis

Do you know why your AWS invoice increases every month? Invoice Explorer does all the heavy lifting and analyzes thousands of lines of detailed billing data to tell you EXACTLY why your bills change each month. No more guessing games. No more spreadsheets. No more mystery. Just clear answers based on data and facts.

Understand exactly why your AWS bill changes each month
Quickly identify resources with rapidly growing costs
Full invoice variance analysis and reconciliation
Use your invoice templates to analyze variances by department, project, or any other view you create
One-click export to PDF and Excel

Detailed Cost Trackers

Invoice Explorer does so much more than just analyze monthly invoice data. You can also see how your costs are trending over time, including the ability to select between daily, weekly, and monthly views. You can even apply filters to isolate and analyze specific costs such as compute costs, storage costs, or data charges.

Create custom views that can be added to your dashboard
Highly configurable editor enables you to track the specific costs that are important to your organization
Incorporate AWS tagging so you can track cost trends by department, project, resource owner, etc.
Quickly change between daily, weekly, or monthly views
Apply filters to isolate costs for specific services

Customizable Dashboards

Every organization is different, so you need a dashboard that can adapt to your environment. With Invoice Explorer, creating custom dashboards is easy. You can choose from our library of custom content tiles, or use our editor to create your own tile that tracks the specific costs that are important to you.

Create user-specific custom dashboards
Use our editor to quickly create dynamic content tiles for your dashboard
Full drag-and-drop dashboard creation
Drill-down support so you can quickly find out what is causing trend anomalies
Create multiple dashboard pages to organize your content tiles by topic

Real-Time Spending Alerts

No more surprises! Get notified as soon as your AWS costs spike up. You can also track cumulative spend and get notified as soon as you are approaching your limit for the period.

Select any combination of email, text, or website notifications
Determine who receives the notification
Set alerts that notify you as soon as costs spike
Set custom spending limits for the month, quarter, or year
Drill down to quickly identify what is driving the spikes in spending

Extensive Cost Reporting

AWS’ billing practices are extremely complex and confusing. Getting meaningful information out of their billing console is also a huge challenge. Invoice Explorer analyzes thousands of lines of detailed billing data and does all the heavy lifting for you. The result is insightful reporting that gives you clear answers to your most important questions. Plus, if you need something special, we can always build a custom report for you.

Total cost of ownership
Most expensive resources
Fastest growing costs
Executive summary reporting
Custom reports available

Additional Resources