[SOLVED] How to get EC2 instance costs via AWS Billing

Issue

I am trying to differentiate costs among my AWS EC2 instances.

I've tried everything mentioned via forums and AWS, I've created Tags to ID each EC2 instance, and I still cannot seem to get billing report telling me how much each instance is accumulating cost wise. They are all lumped together.

I created and enabled a tag for each, but still Cost Explorer is virtually useless, and only chunks these costs into instance types.

One other similar solution mentioned to create separate AWS accounts for each customer/client? Which in my case, is too late, if this is the only way to differentiate costs among the running EC2 instances.

Solution

You need to manually enable cost allocation tags in the console.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/activating-tags.html

To activate your tags

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Billing and Cost Management console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/.
2. In the navigation pane, choose Cost Allocation Tags.
3. Select the tags that you want to activate.
4. Choose Activate.

Good luck!

Answered By - Dvir669