Migrating from the Cost module to AWS cost tools

If you use the Stax Cost module to manage your costs in AWS, you might want to consider some of the alternatives below. In general, you can start by investigating the capabilities of the AWS Billing and Cost Management suite, covered here. Additionally, if you have AWS Enterprise Support, your TAM can help with this too.

If you were using the Cost Dashboard

for...	then you might consider...
Cost and usage analysis	AWS Cost Explorer
Tracking your AWS usage against a budget	AWS Budgets
Estimating future usage	AWS Cost Explorer Forecasts
Breaking down costs by views and segments	Cost Categories to break cost down based on rules you define, and Cost allocation tags to use tags assigned to your resources when grouping costs.
Viewing consolidated cost information across multiple AWS Organizations	Cloud Intelligence Dashboards and CUDOS using Amazon QuickSight

If you were using the Raw Data page

for...	then you might consider...
Searching for specific usage items using grouping and filtering	AWS Cost Explorer with Report parameters configured to suit your search query
Exporting large amounts of cost data for processing elsewhere	AWS Cost Explorer and Download as CSV functionality. Alternatively, consider querying CURs directly with Amazon Athena (set up as part of the process when setting up CUDOS).

If you were using the Comparative Data page

for...	then you might consider...
Comparing usage across Views and Segments	See "Breaking down costs by views and segments" under Cost Dashboard above
Estimating future usage across Views and Segments	See "Estimating future usage" under Cost Dashboard above

If you were using Organizational Budgets

for...	then you might consider...
Defining an organization-wide AWS budget	AWS Budgets

If you were using the Wastage page

for...	then you might consider...
Reviewing overprovisioned resources	Cost Optimization Hub savings opportunities
Reviewing outdated resource types	Cost Optimization Hub savings opportunities
Reviewing unused resources	No default comparison in AWS
Monitoring Savings Plans usage	Savings Plans Utilization report
Monitoring Reserved Instances usage	Reservations Utilization report

If you were using Notifications

for...	then you might consider...
Cost daily summary	Cloud Intelligence Dashboards and CUDOS using Amazon QuickSight
Cost weekly summary	Cloud Intelligence Dashboards and CUDOS using Amazon QuickSight
Budget alerts	AWS Budgets
Cost run rate spike alerts	Cost Anomaly Detection Alert subscriptions
Wastage report	Cost Optimization Hub and Data Exports