The FinOps toolkit is designed to give you highly detailed visibility into exactly where your budget is going. Rather than just viewing a single total, you can break down your costs by several categories:
- Linked Account: The specific AWS account where your cloud resources are running.
- Product/Service: The specific tool being used (e.g., EC2 for compute, S3 for storage).
- Seller: Whether the cost originated from AWS directly or the AWS Marketplace.
- Usage Type & Quantity: Exactly how the service was consumed (e.g., data transfer vs. compute hours) and the volume used.
You can easily switch your view to display these metrics by cost (dollars) or by usage quantity. For example, you can switch your view to display the data downloaded out of S3 in gigabytes rather than its cost in dollars.
Combining Filters
If you select multiple categories at once, the dashboard will narrow your view to display only the costs that match all of your selections. For instance, if you want to know exactly how much data was downloaded out of your storage, you could combine filters to show Service = S3 and Usage Type = DataTransfer‑Out‑Bytes.
Cost Tag Analysis
One of the most powerful ways to track spending is by using cost tags (such as user:Project or user:User). Cost tags enable you to drill down and answer specific administrative questions, such as:
- “How much did John Doe spend this month?”
- “What did John Doe spend specifically on Project X?”
The system carefully organizes your data by these service categories and tag values to prevent charging the same expense twice. In the future, enhancements to the dashboard will also analyze how thoroughly your resources are tagged, helping you ensure that all resources in your account are being properly categorized.