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Cost monitoring - Innovation Sandbox on AWS
Querying sandbox costs by tagChecking tag activation status

Cost monitoring

Innovation Sandbox applies AWS Organizations account tags to sandbox accounts throughout the lease lifecycle and activates them as cost allocation tags. This allows you to analyze sandbox costs by lease, user, cost report group, lease template, and account state.

For planning details about the tagging feature, see Account cost allocation tags in Plan your deployment. For an architectural description, see Account cost allocation tagging in Architecture details.

Querying sandbox costs by tag

After the ISB tag keys are active, you can analyze sandbox costs in AWS Cost Explorer:

  1. Sign in to the AWS Organizations management account and open AWS Cost Explorer.

  2. Under Filters, choose Tag, and then select an ISB tag key (for example, ISB-<namespace>:CostReportGroup or ISB-<namespace>:User).

  3. Optionally, set Group by to Tag and select an ISB tag key to break down costs by that dimension.

The solution attributes cost to a tag only from the time it applies the tag to the account — tags are not retroactive. Leases created before this feature was deployed do not have account tags and continue to use the solution’s existing cost attribution.

Checking tag activation status

To verify whether ISB tag keys are active:

  1. Sign in to the AWS Organizations management account.

  2. Open the Cost allocation tags console.

  3. Search for ISB-<namespace> to locate the five ISB tag keys.

  4. Confirm each tag shows a status of Active.

If tags are not active after 24 hours, see Manually activating cost allocation tags in the Troubleshooting section.