Tag: Kubecost

Kubecost provides granular visibility into Kubernetes cluster costs on AWS, enabling easy comparison with AWS Cost Explorer. This post guides users through validating Kubecost cost data against AWS billing, troubleshooting discrepancies, and ensuring complete resource discovery. It covers aggregating costs in Kubecost dashboards, filtering to compare specific assets, reconciling adjusted pricing, and using CSV exports for programmatic validation.

Amazon EKS has a collaboration with Kubecost, a Kubernetes and cloud cost management tool that helps customers monitor, track, optimize, and govern their cloud and Kubernetes spending. Kubecost can be installed easily in a few minutes, but many customers are looking for a cloud-native way to expose Kubecost UI for their internal team to access the costs report. This post describes how to authenticate Kubecost users via Application Load Balancer and Amazon Cognito.