Breadcrumbs

Step-1: Enable CUR & Cost Explorer

If you have cost and usage reports already created follow Use existing report otherwise Use new report

Use existing report

  1. Log into AWS console and go to Billing and Cost Management under profile

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  2. Click on Data Exports

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  1. Out of multiple available reports, choose the oldest and the one having following properties

    1. Time granularity : Daily / Hourly

    2. File format : text/csv

  1. Select the report you chose in the previous step > Actions and Edit

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  1. Scroll down and capture the S3 bucket, S3 path prefix fields from the report details section for the report

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  1. Go to Step-2: Enable Cost Allocation Tags

Creating New Report

  1. Log into AWS console and go to Billing and Cost Management under profile

  2. Click on Data Exports and Select Legacy CUR export

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  1. Enter the Export name of your choice and enable the below options under Export content

  • Include Resource IDs

  • Split cost allocation data

  • Refresh Automatically

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  1. Under Data export delivery options select

  • Time granularity : Daily

  • Report versioning : overwrite existing report

  • Compression type : GZIP

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  1. Under Data export storage settings

  • Configure bucket by choosing one of the existing or creating a new one

  • Enter S3 path prefix and create the report

Make a note of S3 bucket and S3 path prefix as its used in subsequent steps

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  1. To enable cost explorer follow the steps mentioned here https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/latest/userguide/ce-enable.html

AWS takes up to 24 hours to create first report to the configured bucket