Managers that take decisions around Reserved Instances and Savings Plans purchase typically prefer to get a brief with a tool that they understand - Excel. This is why we need this script.

Store your Cost Savings Recommendations from AWS CostExplorer API into an Excel file using XlsxWriter. Savings Plans and Reserved Instances recommendations are parsed and added to worksheets.

Example screenshot taken on a Mac with Account Alias and Account Id anonymized.

• Python3 and pip3.
• AWS CLI setup and configured with all profiles that.

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
# or
pip3 install -r requirements.txt 

Run the script to generate Excel file

python3 cost_savings_recommendations_to_excel.py

To see what arguments can be feed into the script.

python3 cost_savings_recommendations_to_excel.py --help