Configuring the EC2 Instance Hours Report

Products

• CloudHealth

Issue/Introduction

The EC2 Instance Hours report can be confusing and not provide the best visibility into the information available.  Below is a layout for the report that will arrange various cost data in a logical way that will make sense as to how the Total Cost is calculated.  The first step is to navigate to the EC2 Instance Hours Report via REPORTS>USAGE>EC2 INSTANCE HOURS and click on the "Edit Columns" button at the top of the page.  From here,

 

Total Cost

EC2 Total Cost

EC2 Compute Cost

EC2 Transfer Cost

EC2 EBS-Optimized Surcharge

EC2 Dedicated Tenancy Cost

EC2 Other Cost

EBS Total Cost

EBS Storage Cost

EBS I/O Cost

EBS PIOPS Cost

 

This link can be used to have this report pulled up automatically:  https://apps.cloudhealthtech.com/reports/usage/instance-hours?display_names=account.name,instance.name,instance_type.api_name,availability_zone.name,instance.is_spot,total_hours,full_cost,total_cost,compute_cost,ec2_io_cost,ec2_optimized_ebs_surcharge_cost,ec2_dedicated_tenancy_cost,ec2_other_cost,ebs_total_cost,ebs_storage_cost,ebs_io_cost,ebs_piops_cost&sort_order=-total_cost&report_id=5841155525118

 

Be sure to keep the fields provided that were default for reference (Account Name, Instance Name, API Name, Zone Name, Spot Total Hours)

 

 

 

  

 

Resolution

Once configured and updated, the report will now have all the cost columns lined up in a way where it is easy to discern where and how the total cost is calculated.