# Understanding widget types
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Dashboards help you monitor and analyze your AWS costs, usage, and resource commitments. Two types of widgets are available: custom widgets that you configure from scratch to track costs, usage, and commitment metrics, and predefined widgets that come with preset cost breakdowns over time.



- **Custom**
  - **Widget name:** Cost / **Widget description:** Visualizes your aggregate costs across all AWS services, including breakdown by service, Region, or custom tags.
  - **Widget name:** Usage / **Widget description:** Visualizes your aggregate usage across all AWS services, helping you track resource consumption patterns.
  - **Widget name:** Savings Plans utilization / **Widget description:** Shows how well you're using your Savings Plans commitments, including unused and partially used commitments.
  - **Widget name:** Savings Plans coverage / **Widget description:** Shows what percentage of your usage is covered by Savings Plans.
  - **Widget name:** Reservation utilization / **Widget description:** Shows how well you're using your Reserved Instances.
  - **Widget name:** Reservation coverage / **Widget description:** Shows what percentage of your usage is covered by Reserved Instances.

- **Predefined**
  - **Widget name:** Monthly costs by service / **Widget description:** Visualizes your aggregate monthly costs across all AWS services for the last six months.
  - **Widget name:** Monthly costs by linked account / **Widget description:** Visualizes your aggregate monthly costs across all AWS linked accounts for the last six months.
  - **Widget name:** Monthly EC2 running hour costs / **Widget description:** Visualizes your monthly EC2 running hour costs for the last six months.
  - **Widget name:** Daily costs / **Widget description:** Visualizes your daily AWS costs for the last six months.
  - **Widget name:** AWS Marketplace costs / **Widget description:** Visualizes your AWS Marketplace costs for the last six months.



Each of these widgets can be customized to show the data most relevant to your needs, allowing you to create comprehensive and insightful dashboards.