CUR 2.0
10 posts
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Amazon Bedrock cost per team (2026)
Bedrock does not split by team by default. IAM principal cost allocation and application inference profiles: what each answers, and why CloudWatch cannot.
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ECS split cost allocation data vs EKS (2026)
SCAD covers ECS tasks too, but ECS gets no service-generated tags and no GPU splitting. Plus the row count formula.
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EC2 Capacity Reservations: unused cost (2026)
An EC2 Capacity Reservation bills at full On-Demand whether used or not, and the idle half arrives as UnusedBox. Plus who pays when it is shared.
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Query your CUR in Athena, no crawler (2026)
Athena partition projection computes partitions from table properties. The config, and six ways it returns zero rows not an error.
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Why cost allocation tags show up empty (2026)
Tagging a resource is not activating cost allocation tags. The two 24-hour delays, what a backfill can recover, and the CUR 2.0 key change.
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Why Cost Explorer and your CUR differ (2026)
Same dataset, three totals. The six documented causes, which number you owe, and what Cost Explorer charges per request.
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Amortized vs unblended cost in AWS (2026)
Five CUR cost columns, one right answer per question. When to use amortized, when unblended, and why blended cost is never the answer.
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What cross-AZ data transfer costs (2026)
Cross-AZ transfer is $0.01 per GB each direction, so $0.02 a round trip. What is free, what a public IP costs, and the usage type that changed in 2025.
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CUR 2.0 vs FOCUS: only one costs pods (2026)
A field-level comparison from the AWS column dictionaries: what CUR 2.0 has that FOCUS does not, and four gotchas.
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What is EC2 - Other in Cost Explorer? (2026)
EC2 - Other is not a service. What the bucket holds, the usage types that break it down, and why it never appears on your invoice.