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AWS cost-management documentation change

Service: cost-management · 2025-03-10 · Documentation low

File: cost-management/latest/userguide/ce-q-prompting-guidance.md

Summary

Removed 'Unsupported question categories' section and updated Amazon Q Developer integration details with Cost Explorer APIs.

Security assessment

Changes involve product capability documentation updates without any security context. The modifications clarify integration scope and remove deprecated content, but no security features or vulnerabilities are addressed.

Diff

diff --git a/cost-management/latest/userguide/ce-q-prompting-guidance.md
index 4e913e0b4..ca6d532d2 100644
--- a/cost-management/latest/userguide/ce-q-prompting-guidance.md
+++ b/cost-management/latest/userguide/ce-q-prompting-guidance.md
@@ -5 +5 @@
-Supported question categoriesPrompting tipsUnsupported question categories
+Supported question categoriesPrompting tips
@@ -32 +32 @@ Cost metrics | What were my net amortized costs last month?
-Amazon Q Developer is currently integrated with the following Cost Explorer APIs: `GetCostAndUsage`, `GetCostForecast`, `GetDimensionValues`, `GetCostCategories`, `GetTags`. Questions that require data from other Billing and Cost Management APIs are not yet supported.
+Amazon Q Developer is currently integrated with the Cost Explorer `GetCostAndUsage` and `GetCostForecast` APIs. For questions that require data from other Billing and Cost Management APIs (such as questions about your AWS budgets, Savings Plans utilization, or payments), Amazon Q can provide general guidance that doesn't consider your account's specific cost data. Amazon Q can’t answer questions about the costs of specific resources (specific EC2 instances, for example) or provide usage quantities (number of EC2 instance-hours, for example).
@@ -49,22 +48,0 @@ Cost analysis in Amazon Q Developer works best when your prompts are clear and s
-## Unsupported question categories
-
-The cost analysis capability in Amazon Q Developer does not support the following question categories. For these question categories, Amazon Q Developer provides responses that don't consider your account’s specific cost and usage data or, in rare cases, might provide inaccurate or unexpected responses to these questions.
-
-Question category | Example  
----|---  
-"Why" questions | Why did my costs increase last month?  
-Data transfer | How much are we spending on data transfer?  
-Free Tier | Why am I being charged as I thought my instance was part of Free Tier?  
-Pricing | How much does an EC2 t3.xlarge instance cost?  
-Cost optimization or savings | How can I lower my bill?  
-Savings Plans or reserved instance utilization or coverage | What is my Savings Plan utilization rate?  
-Savings Plans or reserved instance inventory | What active Savings Plans do I have?  
-Invoices or payments | Did my last payment go through?  
-Specific resources | Which EC2 instance did I spend the most on?  
-AWS Budgets | How much of my budget have I consumed?  
-AWS Cost Anomaly Detection | Have you detected any anomalies in my spending?  
-Service categories | How much did we spend on databases in October?  
-Usage types | How much did we spend on EBSVolumeUsage:io2 last month?  
-API operations | What was the spend on the NatGateway operation yesterday?  
-Usage amounts | How many EC2 instance hours did we use last month?  
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