aid: amazon-billing-and-cost-management name: Amazon Billing And Cost Management description: >- AWS Billing and Cost Management is a suite of tools and APIs that enables organizations to view, analyze, forecast, budget, and optimize their AWS spending. It includes AWS Cost Explorer for cost analysis, AWS Budgets for budget tracking and alerts, Cost Anomaly Detection for ML-powered anomaly identification, Cost Categories for spend organization, and the AWS Price List API for programmatic pricing queries. The suite supports consolidated billing across AWS Organizations and chargeback/showback workflows. type: Index image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg tags: - Billing - Cost Management - Cost Explorer - Budgets - Cost Optimization - FinOps - Amazon Web Services - AWS url: >- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-billing-and-cost-management/refs/heads/main/apis.yml created: '2026-03-16' modified: '2026-06-20' specificationVersion: '0.19' apis: - aid: amazon-billing-and-cost-management:aws-cost-explorer-api name: AWS Cost Explorer API description: >- The AWS Cost Explorer API provides programmatic access to cost and usage data. Query aggregated or granular cost data, filter and group by service, account, tag, or region, and retrieve cost forecasts and rightsizing recommendations. humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/latest/userguide/ce-api.html baseURL: https://ce.us-east-1.amazonaws.com tags: - Cost Explorer - Cost Analysis - Forecasting - Cost Optimization properties: - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/latest/userguide/ce-api.html - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/latest/APIReference/ - type: OpenAPI url: >- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-billing-and-cost-management/refs/heads/main/openapi/aws-cost-explorer-api-openapi.yml - type: SpectralRuleset url: >- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-billing-and-cost-management/refs/heads/main/spectral/ruleset.yml - type: Capabilities url: >- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-billing-and-cost-management/refs/heads/main/capabilities/capabilities.yml - type: Vocabulary url: >- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-billing-and-cost-management/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/vocabulary.yml - type: Overlay url: overlays/amazon-billing-and-cost-management-aws-cost-explorer-api-overlay.yaml contact: - FN: AWS Support url: https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/ features: - name: Cost and Usage Queries description: >- Query cost and usage data with filtering by service, account, tag, region, and time range at daily or monthly granularity. - name: Cost Forecasting description: >- Generate cost forecasts for future time periods based on historical spending patterns. - name: Cost Anomaly Detection description: >- ML-powered detection of unusual spending patterns with configurable alerts and root cause analysis. - name: Rightsizing Recommendations description: >- Identify EC2 instance rightsizing opportunities to reduce costs without impacting performance. - name: Savings Plans Recommendations description: >- Get recommendations for Savings Plans purchases to reduce compute costs based on usage patterns. - name: Reservation Recommendations description: >- Receive recommendations for Reserved Instance purchases across EC2, RDS, Redshift, and other services. useCases: - name: FinOps Cost Analysis description: >- Build custom dashboards and reports querying cost and usage data by team, project, service, or environment using cost allocation tags. - name: Budget Tracking Automation description: >- Automate budget monitoring with programmatic budget creation, alert configuration, and cost anomaly subscriptions. - name: Chargeback and Showback description: >- Allocate and distribute AWS costs to internal teams and business units using cost categories and split charge rules. integrations: - name: AWS Organizations description: Consolidated billing and multi-account cost analysis - name: Amazon QuickSight description: Visualize cost and usage data with QuickSight dashboards - name: Amazon SNS description: Receive budget and anomaly alert notifications via SNS - name: AWS Lambda description: Trigger automated cost remediation workflows from budget actions - aid: amazon-billing-and-cost-management:aws-budgets-api name: AWS Budgets API description: >- The AWS Budgets API enables programmatic creation and management of custom budgets that track cost, usage, coverage, and utilization. Supports budget actions that automatically respond when thresholds are exceeded. humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/latest/userguide/budgets-managing-costs.html baseURL: https://budgets.amazonaws.com tags: - Budgets - Cost Tracking - Alerts properties: - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/latest/userguide/budgets-managing-costs.html - type: OpenAPI url: >- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-billing-and-cost-management/refs/heads/main/openapi/aws-budgets-api-openapi.yml - type: Overlay url: overlays/amazon-billing-and-cost-management-aws-budgets-api-overlay.yaml - aid: amazon-billing-and-cost-management:aws-price-list-api name: AWS Price List API description: >- The AWS Price List API allows programmatic querying of AWS service pricing information in JSON or CSV format. Retrieve price lists for all AWS services, filter by region and attributes, and stay current with pricing changes via SNS notifications. humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/price-changes.html baseURL: https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com tags: - Pricing - Price List - Cost Estimation properties: - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/price-changes.html common: - type: TrustCenter url: security/amazon-billing-and-cost-management-trust-center.yml - type: VulnerabilityDisclosure url: security/amazon-billing-and-cost-management-vulnerability-disclosure.yml - type: DomainSecurity url: security/amazon-billing-and-cost-management-domain-security.yml - type: Authentication url: authentication/amazon-billing-and-cost-management-authentication.yml - type: Portal url: https://aws.amazon.com/ - type: Website url: https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/ - type: Console url: https://console.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/ - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/latest/userguide/ - type: TermsOfService url: https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/ - type: PrivacyPolicy url: https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/ - type: Pricing url: https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/pricing/ - type: FAQ url: https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/faqs/ - type: Blog url: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws-cloud-financial-management/ - type: GitHubOrganization url: https://github.com/aws - type: Contact url: https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/ - type: Packages url: packages/amazon-billing-and-cost-management-packages.yml - type: WellKnown url: well-known/amazon-billing-and-cost-management-well-known.yml - type: SecurityTxt url: well-known/amazon-billing-and-cost-management-security.txt - type: MCPServer url: mcp/amazon-billing-and-cost-management-mcp.yml - type: LLMsTxt url: llms/amazon-billing-and-cost-management-llms.txt - type: Conformance url: conformance/amazon-billing-and-cost-management-conformance.yml - type: ErrorCatalog url: errors/amazon-billing-and-cost-management-problem-types.yml - type: Lifecycle url: lifecycle/amazon-billing-and-cost-management-lifecycle.yml maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com