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AWS Audit Manager

  • Timenot billed
  • Bytesnot billed
  • Unitsbilled

In one line

Per resource assessment, where one assessment is one piece of evidence about one resource.

What gets missed

A single daily config snapshot across a hundred instances is a hundred assessments a day, not one. Adding frameworks multiplies the count, and the Config and Security Hub checks feeding evidence bill on their own.

Find it on your bill

Filter Cost Explorer or your Cost and Usage Report by these usage types. A usage type with no region prefix means us-east-1.

  • USE1-Resource-Assessment-Collected

Bills the same way

These services turn exactly the same meters, so what you learn here transfers.