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Amazon's billing tool is the most useless thing I've ever seen lol. it's like "$XYZ of your bill was server compute!" like, there's 40 ec2s, elastic beanstalk instances, fargate, kubernetes, like what the fuck is 'server compute' and what's the breakdown of the actual individual parts?
It's not even unhelpful, it's literally worse than useless lmao
You can get a full itemized bill. The only thing that isn't fully broken out are elastic ips. We found that out because we were tagging everything for billing and those weren't showing up correctly.
Mind you, it's likely a bit more itemized than you want. Like you'll see a separate line item for each price tier you paid for something, and things like ebs disks are all split out. It can be a bit...much.
I mean, that's kind of my point though. You either get worse than useless, over detailed to the point of useless, or you have to spend weeks pulling hacky crap with tags to try to jury-rig your own useful billing system out of their clusterfuck.
I think you're over exaggerating the effort needed for tagging resources. Between terraform/pulumi/cdk and the tag tool, it's relatively easy to make sure everything is tagged. Doubly so if you have a finance department who's literal job is to go through and do that (or ask you for help with it)