Seperate Billing in AWS Account for two different EC2 Instance-CodePudding

I have two EC2 instances in a single AWS account. Both are running for different application services. Now, I want to make billing separate for that particular account. So, I can get the exact spent and charges for the applications and can manage my account as per that for separate accounting purposes.

Is it possible? If not, then can anyone suggest me a better way to achieve this?

I'm planning to handle the different AWS accounts for both services. But, it will be hard to manage so, I can't prefer that option.

For more, In Google Cloud, they're providing to handle different billing accounts within the same google cloud account. So, I think this concept might be available on AWS also.

Thanks in advance for any little bit of help or suggestion.

CodePudding user response：

You can't get separate bills for different sets of resources within the same AWS account. However, you can filter out the costs for different sets of resources using tags. By using a distinct tag (or set of tags) in the resources you allocate to each application, you can get a breakdown of the cost for each application in billing reports and cost explorer. See the documentation for details and steps on how to set it up - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/cost-alloc-tags.html

I believe it's the same with Google Cloud as well - although you can have multiple billing accounts within your google account (the hierarchy in GC is different to AWS, and an AWS account is more similar to a GC project than a GC account), a project within your account must have one billing account and does not support multiples.

CodePudding user response：

By this -

Now, I want to make billing separate for that particular account.

do you mean you already have 2 different AWS accounts? If yes, you can get billing details as per account if they become part of same Organization. Check AWS Organizations docs for more info.

With Orgs, you can view bills of different accounts from one account itself if it is part of org. Also your accounts get discounts for services.