Amazon web services is designing tools to help users track cloud usage & spending pattern in a much easier way. Cloud tracking ability is the new front in the feature competition among cloud services. In addition to the just-launched Cost Explorer by Amazon Web Services, for example, Google unveiled a beta version of Cloud Pricing Calculator in February to estimate costs and needs for computing power, storage, memory or other resources. According to Parmita Mehta, technical program manager at AWS, there were several things the first release focused on. One is simplicity, so that sign-up can be accomplished with a single click, and the tool runs in the browser. She said, “Cost Explorer shows you your current month's spend and automatically pre-populates your last 4 months of AWS spend so you can visualize your AWS costs, and start analyzing trends and spending patterns”.

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