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AWS Cost and Usage Report vs. Amazon CloudWatch

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAWS Cost and Usage Report

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon CloudWatch

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Overall rating3.74.3
Review count15403
Ease of use8.48.4
Ease of setup7.18.7
Quality of support8.98.6
Meets requirements9.38.8
NPS054.269972
Small Business53.3%28.9%
Mid-Market40.0%30.1%
Enterprise6.7%41.0%
Total page views81461
Total LLM citations28710

AWS Cost and Usage Report

The AWS Cost & Usage Report lists AWS usage for each service category used by an account and its IAM users in hourly or daily line items, as well as any tags that you have activated for cost allocation purposes. You can also customize the AWS Cost & Usage Report to aggregate your usage data to the daily or monthly level.

Pros

  • Cost Saving

Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon CloudWatch is a comprehensive monitoring and observability service designed to provide real-time insights into AWS resources, on-premises servers, hybrid environments, and applications. It enables users to collect and track metrics, monitor log files, set alarms, and automatically react to changes in their AWS resources. By offering a unified view of operational health, CloudWatch helps organizations optimize application performance, manage resource utilization, and maintain system reliability.

Pros

  • Log Management
  • Integrations
  • Alerting Systems
  • Monitoring
  • Real-time Monitoring
  • Alerting System