Reading the dashboard

The widget canvas

The dashboard is a free-form canvas, not a fixed layout. Every tile on it — KPI numbers, trend charts, other data widgets — can be dragged to a new position, resized, or hidden.

You’re not limited to the built-in widgets. You can add:

• Custom KPI tiles — pick a metric and scope (for example, total AWS spend this month, or spend for a specific cost tag) and pin it as a number tile.
• Custom trend charts — pick one or more cost sources or tags to chart together over time, rather than using the default view.

To add a widget, use the canvas’s add-widget control and configure it in the dialog that opens. To rearrange the canvas, drag a tile by its header to move it, or drag a corner to resize it. To remove a tile, hide it from the tile’s own menu — this doesn’t delete any data, just that tile’s placement.

Your layout is saved per account, not per user — everyone viewing that account’s dashboard sees the same arrangement. On a narrow screen (mobile), the canvas falls back to a stacked, single-column layout instead of the free-form grid.

Billed vs. amortized

Charts and KPI tiles that show cost can toggle between billed cost (what the provider charged in that period) and amortized cost (the same charges, but with prepaid commitments like Reserved Instances or Savings Plans spread across the term they cover). See Billed vs. amortized cost for what changes between the two and which providers support amortized figures.

Display currency

If your account has cost sources billing in more than one currency, you can switch the dashboard’s display currency. Cost figures convert to the currency you pick; the underlying data is unaffected. See Multi-currency for how conversion works and which figures (like budgets) don’t convert.