Improve cost visibility of Amazon EKS with AWS Split Cost Allocation Data
Cloud Financial Management Blog
This article discusses AWS Split Cost Allocation Data for Amazon EKS, a new capability that provides granular cost visibility for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) applications. It enables allocating Amazon EC2 instance costs to individual Kubernetes pods based on their actual CPU and memory usage, simplifying cost tracking and chargeback processes.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Challenges in monitoring and allocating costs for containerized applications
- How Split Cost Allocation Data works to distribute EC2 costs across Kubernetes pods
- Steps to enable Split Cost Allocation Data for Amazon EKS
- Setting up Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus for cost allocation based on actual usage
- Example calculation of EC2 cost allocation across multiple Kubernetes pods
- New Cost and Usage Report columns for Kubernetes cost metrics
- Conclusion and links to enable and learn more about the capability
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