Amazon Q Developer now provides natural language cost analysis

Today, AWS announces the addition of cost analysis capabilities to Amazon Q Developer, allowing customers to retrieve and interpret their AWS cost data through natural language interactions. Amazon Q Developer is a generative AI-powered assistant that helps customers build, deploy, and operate applications on AWS. The cost analysis capability helps users of all skill levels to better understand and manage their AWS spending without previous knowledge of AWS Cost Explorer.

Customers can now ask Amazon Q Developer questions about their AWS costs such as "Which region had the largest cost increase last month?" or "What services cost me the most last quarter?". Q interprets these questions, analyzes the relevant cost data, and provides easy-to-understand responses. Each answer includes transparency on the Cost Explorer parameters used and a link to visualize the data in Cost Explorer.

This feature is now available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Q Developer is supported. Customers can access it via the Amazon Q icon in the AWS Management Console. To get started, see the AWS Cost Management user guide.