EC2-Other in Cost Explorer

[marekhel]

I'm looking for a way to query Cost Explorer for Storage expenses assigned to EC2 instance. In Web console it's called EC2-Other, as far as I understood.
I don't know how to query API for this type of expense.
I did some checks, but it didn't succeeded, Experimenting with this query is a bit of expensive, so asking you here. How to do it?
cost_explorer = client.get_cost_and_usage(
TimePeriod={
'Start': str(period_start),
'End': str(period_end)
},
Granularity='MONTHLY',
Filter={"And": [{"Dimensions": {"Key": "REGION", "Values": [region]}},
{"Dimensions": {"Key": "SERVICE", "Values": ["Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud - EC2-Other"]}}]},
Metrics=[
'UnblendedCost',
])

[tim-finnigan]

Hi @marekhel thanks for reaching out. Have you tried setting the Value to just "EC2 - Other" ? That seemed to work for me.

For more information on filtering with CostExplorer you can refer to this documentation: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/latest/userguide/ce-filtering.html

Also for reference I'll share a link to the get_cost_and_usage documentation: https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/1.9.42/reference/services/ce.html#CostExplorer.Client.get_cost_and_usage