Akshat Mittal

DevOps

From Manual Cost Analysis to Automated Insights: Building a Multi-Level Cost Analysis Dashboard in QuickSight.

If you’ve ever tried to track AWS costs with just Cost Explorer and spreadsheets, you’ll know the pain. On paper it sounds simple: export some data, make a pivot table, maybe throw a chart on top. In practice? You’re stuck chasing down anomalies with five browser tabs open, three CSVs half-filtered, and a sinking feeling that...

04-Jul-2025

DevOps

Mastering AWS Cost Management with QuickSight: A Comprehensive Workflow from Data Export to Dashboard Insights!

Challenges with Existing Cost Explorer AWS Cost Explorer provides resource-based cost insights, but it has a limitation: it only allows viewing cost data for individual resources for the last 14 days. If cost trends need to be analyzed over a longer period and specific resources contributing to cost increases beyond two weeks need to be...

15-Mar-2025