Management
Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards
- Timebilled
- Bytesnot billed
- Callsbilled
In one line
Custom dashboards rent by the month, prorated hourly. Automatic dashboards are free.
What gets missed
Free tier is three custom dashboards of up to 50 metrics each. Past that you pay per dashboard, and GetMetricWidgetImage, which embedded widgets call, is never covered by the free request tier.
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.
DashboardsUsageHourDashboardsUsageHour-BasicCW:GMWI-Metrics
Bills the same way
These services turn exactly the same meters, so what you learn here transfers.