The Looker Block for AWS Cost and Usage Reports provides a plethora of comprehensive information around usage of AWS services and the associated costs. Whether you need the report segmented by product type, user identity, or region, this report can be cut-and-sliced any number of ways to properly allocate costs for any of your business needs. You can then drill into any specific line item to see even further detail, such as the selected operating system, tenancy, purchase option (on-demand, spot, or reserved), etc..

This Block, built by the experts on the AWS and Looker product teams, focuses on the three most common levers of cost-savings, including:

• Increasing reserved instance coverage and utilization
• Decreasing data transfer costs
• Allocating costs over custom variables

Spin up an Amazon Athena instance to be able to access and query your CloudTrail data from S3 in seconds , or use Amazon Redshift’s Spectrum feature to easily query files stored in S3 from your Amazon Redshift database.