Reality Check — Cloud cost

Holistic AWS spend for this demo account, collected twice daily and stored in Aurora Serverless v2 (PostgreSQL). Gross is the real pre-credit consumption; net is what's actually billed after promotional credits (≈$0 while credits last).

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Last 30 days (gross usage)
$35.87
Latest: $1.5750 · Peak: $1.9475
Last 30 days (net, post-credit)
$0.00
Credits remaining of $200.00 granted
$163.10
$36.90 consumed · credits run out in ~98 days at the current $1.65/day burn
Resources tracked
72
24 days recorded

Breakdown by ApplicationName tag (30-day roll-up, gross)

ApplicationName Active Resources Trend (30d) Gross usage Share
🏷️ RealityChecker46 resourcesLatest: $1.5750 · Peak: $1.9475$35.8657
100.0%
🏷️ Observability-Demo26 resourcesLatest: $0.0000 · Peak: $0.0000$0.0000
0.0%

Top services (30-day roll-up, gross)

ServiceTrend (30d)Gross usage
Amazon Relational Database ServiceLatest: $1.4421 · Peak: $1.7153$31.6286
AWS Cost ExplorerLatest: $0.1200 · Peak: $0.2200$2.9400
AmazonCloudWatchLatest: $0.0000 · Peak: $0.3121$1.0105
Amazon BedrockLatest: $0.0057 · Peak: $0.0091$0.1170
Amazon Simple Storage ServiceLatest: $0.0036 · Peak: $0.0102$0.0970
Amazon EC2 Container Registry (ECR)Latest: $0.0033 · Peak: $0.0055$0.0643
Amazon DynamoDBLatest: $0.0004 · Peak: $0.0004$0.0073
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud - ComputeLatest: $0.0000 · Peak: $0.0006$0.0006
Amazon Virtual Private CloudLatest: $0.0000 · Peak: $0.0003$0.0003
EC2 - OtherLatest: $0.0000 · Peak: $0.0001$0.0001

Daily history

Date (UTC)ApplicationNameGross Net
2026-11-09RealityChecker
$1.5750
$0.0000
2026-11-08RealityChecker
$1.6510
$0.0000
2026-11-07RealityChecker
$1.7074
$0.0000
2026-11-06RealityChecker
$1.6346
$0.0000
2026-11-05RealityChecker
$1.6355
$0.0000
2026-11-04RealityChecker
$1.6335
$0.0000
2026-11-03RealityChecker
$1.6345
$0.0000
2026-11-02RealityChecker
$1.6898
$0.0000
2026-11-01RealityChecker
$0.6936
$0.0000
2026-10-31RealityChecker
$1.8491
$0.0000
2026-10-30RealityChecker
$1.9448
$0.0000
2026-10-29RealityChecker
$1.9475
$0.0000
2026-10-28RealityChecker
$1.7486
$0.0000
2026-10-27RealityChecker
$1.6742
$0.0000
2026-10-26RealityChecker
$1.6695
$0.0000
2026-10-25RealityChecker
$1.6646
$0.0000
2026-10-24RealityChecker
$1.7059
$0.0000
2026-10-23RealityChecker
$1.6332
$0.0000
2026-10-22RealityChecker
$1.6417
$0.0000
2026-10-21RealityChecker
$1.6416
$0.0000
2026-10-20RealityChecker
$1.9117
$0.0000
2026-10-19RealityChecker
$0.4934
$0.0000
2026-10-18RealityChecker
$0.4852
$0.0000
2026-10-17RealityChecker
$0.0000
$0.0000
⚡ AWS Service & Aurora Latency Breakdown Aurora Serverless v2 (Cold Resume) · TLSv1.3
10 calls · 3425.4 ms total
Service / Component Calls Latency Share
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 8 3423.8 ms
100.0%
↳ Aurora Serverless v2 [Compute cold resume (0 → 0.5 ACU)] 1 2631.5 ms
76.9%
↳ psycopg:connect [Server IAM auth] 1 300.0 ms
8.8%
↳ psycopg:connect [TLS handshake - TLSv1.3] 1 267.4 ms
7.8%
↳ psycopg:connect [Warm baseline re-check (pure IAM auth: 166.7ms)] 1 166.7 ms
4.9%
↳ psycopg:connect [TCP connect] 1 40.8 ms
1.2%
↳ Query resource_inventory count 1 7.0 ms
0.2%
↳ Query daily_cost (run 1 - post-resume buffer) 1 6.9 ms
0.2%
↳ Query daily_cost (run 2 - warm buffer pool) 1 3.5 ms
0.1%
AWS RDS 2 1.6 ms
0.0%
↳ rds:generate_db_auth_token 1 0.9 ms
56.2%
↳ rds:generate_db_auth_token (warm probe) 1 0.7 ms
43.7%

Collected twice daily by an AWS Lambda (Graviton) that reads Cost Explorer + the Free Tier / account-plan APIs and enumerates active resources, writing to Aurora via IAM database authentication — no stored secrets. This page reads the same tables through a read-only IAM role. Raw JSON.