AWS CLI vs Console - Cost Explorer

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I'm finding that the AWS Cost Explorer Console and the AWS CLI Cost Explorer are giving two separate numbers. Any reason as to why this is happening?

For example: From my console, you can see my total for Cloudtrail is $72.66

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However, when I put these same exact metrics for CLI, my total is $72.04

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I know this doesn't seem like a big difference, I'm only using Cloudtrail as an example, but some of my pricier services have bigger discrepancies. Is there a reason why this is the case / can something be done to make the console and CLI have matching monthly costs?

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As per the AWS CLI Command Reference, you have to add 1 extra day on your end date. So in your case, you need to get the report for the month of April (from 2020-04-01 to 2020-04-30). Now you have to add an additional 1 day to end date which will be 2020-05-01.

Sets the start and end dates for retrieving AWS costs. The start date is inclusive, but the end date is exclusive. For example, if start is 2017-01-01 and end is 2017-05-01 , then the cost and usage data is retrieved from 2017-01-01 up to and including 2017-04-30 but not including 2017-05-01

So your time period argument will be like --time-period Start=2020-04-01,End=2020-05-01

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