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It's literally called "Billing" and the "Cost Explorer" is the first item in the navigation when you go to the page. I've attached a screenshot and highlighted it for you. FYI, this month is the first time I've opened the AWS GUI in 4-5 months, and it took me about a minute to find the billing page and drill into our AWS costs. I've provided an image that shows how to get to the cost explorer from "Billing" (you can use the search box available on the AWS account landing page to type in "Billing" in order to access the billing page of AWS).

EDIT: sorry, I forgot to include the screenshot link - https://imgur.com/a/tVFoocr

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This does not show the costs per bucket. Specifically, I was interested in the costs for data transfer for each of my buckets. As I said, after half an hour of looking into the "Billing" in AWS, the Cost Explorer and googling around I simply could not find a way to obtain this information.

If this is an ongoing issue and you can’t get the information from something that is in front of S3 (cloudfront/your application etc) then you can enable bucket logging in the settings (which costs!)

You're right, it's shitty of them to not provide that out of the box. However, if it's such a big problem for you, as others have pointed out, it's easy to solve. If you are paying $500/month for S3, you must be processing quite a large amount of data - as another poster pointed out, there's an easy to fix it. If you weren't going to use S3 for this, what would you use instead for this use-case?

I look forward to migrating to Linode's S3-compatible object storage. I appreciate that you are agreeing that it's shitty of AWS. But I disagree that it's "easy to solve". Like I said, I already spent quite some time looking into how to solve it. And having to set up logging for a bucket (and learning how to do this in AWS's complex interface), and if I understand correctly creating another bucket to receive those logs, and learning how to then obtain and interpret the results? Maybe you're above my paygrade but I do not consider this easy.

What drew you to using S3 in the first place while also discounting the risk that it might get a lot of use, and thus a lot of cost? Like, if a 100MB file in a public bucket got a bazillion downloads, did you not want that to happen?

I literally just search on Google “How do I find the price per s3 bucket” and the first link is this.

https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/s3-fi...

Why do people think that they can give Amazon a credit card number and expect everything to be easy enough for them and suitable for a large enterprise? AWS offers something for beginners - Lightsail. When that outgrows their needs, they can peer their behind the scenes LightSail VPC to a full fledge VPC.

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