Management
AWS X-Ray
- Timenot billed
- Bytesnot billed
- Callsbilled
In one line
Traces cost when they are recorded, and again when something reads them.
What gets missed
Sampling is the only real lever, because the charge lands the moment a trace is forwarded. Deleting traces later refunds nothing. X-Ray is now priced on the CloudWatch pricing page.
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.
XRay-TracesStoredXRay-TracesAccessedXRay-InsightsTracesStored
Bills the same way
These services turn exactly the same meters, so what you learn here transfers.