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Analyze AWS costs, find savings, manage budgets, evaluate Savings Plans and Reserved Instances, right-size EC2/Lambda/RDS/EBS with Compute Optimizer, look up service pricing, query CUR with Athena, detect cost anomalies, scope costs to billing views, and monitor Free Tier usage. Triggers on: AWS bill, cost analysis, reduce spend, savings plan, reserved instance, right-size, budget alert, cost optimization, pricing, free tier, cost anomaly, CUR, cost audit, billing view, billing view ARN.

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AWS Pricing Lookup

Price List API service codes differ from Cost Explorer service names. Use these exact codes.

Common Service Codes

Service Price List Code Cost Explorer Name
EC2 AmazonEC2 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud - Compute
Lambda AWSLambda AWS Lambda
S3 AmazonS3 Amazon Simple Storage Service
RDS AmazonRDS Amazon Relational Database Service
DynamoDB AmazonDynamoDB Amazon DynamoDB
ElastiCache AmazonElastiCache Amazon ElastiCache
Redshift AmazonRedshift Amazon Redshift
ECS AmazonECS Amazon Elastic Container Service
CloudFront AmazonCloudFront Amazon CloudFront
Bedrock AmazonBedrock Amazon Bedrock

EC2 Pricing Attributes

  • Filter instances: productFamily: "Compute Instance"
  • Reserved Instances: termType: "Reserved", check LeaseContractLength, OfferingClass, PurchaseOption
  • Spot and Capacity Block pricing are NOT in the Price List API

S3 Pricing Attributes

Filter storage: productFamily: "Storage". Use volumeType (NOT storageClass):

Storage Class volumeType Value
Standard "Standard"
Infrequent Access "Standard - Infrequent Access"
One Zone IA "One Zone - Infrequent Access"
Glacier Instant Retrieval "Glacier Instant Retrieval"
Glacier Flexible "Amazon Glacier"
Glacier Deep Archive "Glacier Deep Archive"
Intelligent-Tiering "Intelligent-Tiering"

Intelligent-Tiering has 5 sub-tiers with distinct volumeType values: "Intelligent-Tiering Frequent Access", "Intelligent-Tiering Infrequent Access", "Intelligent-Tiering Archive Instant Access", "IntelligentTieringArchiveAccess", "IntelligentTieringDeepArchiveAccess". For complete IT cost analysis, also query monitoring fee (feeCode: "S3-Monitoring and Automation-ObjectCount") and transition costs (operation: "S3-INTTransition").

API requests: productFamily: "API Request", check group for request type (PUT, GET).

RDS Pricing Attributes

  • databaseEngine: "MySQL", "PostgreSQL", "MariaDB", "Aurora MySQL", "Aurora PostgreSQL", "SQL Server", "Oracle", "Db2"
  • deploymentOption: "Single-AZ", "Multi-AZ", "Multi-AZ (readable standbys)"
  • databaseEdition: for Oracle/SQL Server — "Standard", "Enterprise", "Express", "Web"
  • licenseModel: important for Oracle and SQL Server
  • Instances: productFamily: "Database Instance". Storage: "Database Storage". Aurora Serverless: "Serverless" or "ServerlessV2"

General Rules

  • Price List API is only available in us-east-1 and ap-south-1 — always specify --region us-east-1
  • AWS uses binary system: 1 KB = 1,024 bytes
  • Monthly calculations: use 730 hours/month
  • Volume-based pricing: check beginRange and endRange in priceDimensions
  • Pricing is public on-demand only — does not reflect customer-specific discounts
  • Always refer customers to the AWS Pricing Calculator for detailed estimates
# List available service codes
aws pricing describe-services --region us-east-1

# Get attribute values for a service
aws pricing get-attribute-values \
  --service-code AmazonEC2 --attribute-name instanceType --region us-east-1

# Get pricing for specific product
aws pricing get-products \
  --service-code AmazonEC2 --region us-east-1 \
  --filters Type=TERM_MATCH,Field=instanceType,Value=m5.xlarge \
            Type=TERM_MATCH,Field=location,Value="US East (N. Virginia)" \
            Type=TERM_MATCH,Field=operatingSystem,Value=Linux \
            Type=TERM_MATCH,Field=tenancy,Value=Shared \
            Type=TERM_MATCH,Field=preInstalledSw,Value=NA \
            Type=TERM_MATCH,Field=capacitystatus,Value=Used

Source: SKILL.md on GitHub

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