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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

AWS Billing and Cost Management
AWS Billing and Cost Management
  1. Click on Data Exports

AWS Data Exports page
AWS Data Exports page
  1. Out of multiple available reports, choose the oldest and the one having the 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

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

S3 bucket and path prefix in report details
S3 bucket and path prefix in report details

Specify the report path using the format S3 path prefix/export_name. For example, if your S3 path prefix is cureports and your export name is MyCostExport, the report path will be cureports/MyCostExport. Copy the report path and paste it into Step 4.

  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

Select Legacy CUR export
Select Legacy CUR export
  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

Legacy CUR export content options
Legacy CUR export content options
  1. Under Data export delivery options select

    • Time granularity: Daily

    • Report versioning: overwrite existing report

    • Compression type: GZIP

Data export delivery options
Data export delivery options
  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 the S3 bucket and S3 path prefix as they're used in subsequent steps

Data export storage settings
Data export storage settings

Specify the report path using the format S3 path prefix/export_name. For example, if your S3 path prefix is cureports and your export name is MyCostExport, the report path will be cureports/MyCostExport. Copy the report path and paste it into Step 4.

  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 the first report in the configured bucket.