Lack of Granular Billing Reports

“As AWS Use Soars, Companies Surprised by Cloud Bills i honestly cannot believe that this is still a thing! well, actually, i can. :(<p>i run a large AWS consolidated billing family for a sizeable computer science graduate research lab and tracking our AWS spends are an absolute nightmare.<p>if you think about it for a minute, why would it be in the best interests of amazon&#x2F;AWS to allow us granular, easy to parse and (most importantly) easy to customize and use billing reports? they&#x27;re in the business of making money, and providing mechanisms for folks to limit their spends will limit profits.<p>another thing to consider is that the billing subsystems for all of these cloud providers are literally one of the <i>first</i> things to be engineered, and after release, one of the <i>last</i> to ever be updated.<p>for instance, it took amazon two years to release OUs (organizational units): one year in closed beta, one in open. while these are great for organizing accounts, you still can&#x27;t see how much an OU spent w&#x2F;o a bunch of python&#x2F;boto gymnastics!<p>i was on a call w&#x2F;some of the leads of the aws billing subsystem about a year back, and asked about what the roadmap for billing features and the response was &quot;2020 at the earliest&quot;.”