Creating Cost and Usage Reports - AWS Data Exports

Creating Cost and Usage Reports

You can use the Cost & Usage Reports page of the Billing and Cost Management console to create Cost and Usage Reports. You can create up to 10 reports for an individual AWS account.

Note

It can take up to 24 hours for AWS to start delivering reports to your Amazon S3 bucket. After delivery starts, AWS updates the AWS Cost and Usage Reports files at least once a day.

To create Cost and Usage Reports
  1. Sign in to the Billing and Cost Management console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/home#/

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Cost & Usage Reports.

  3. Choose Create report.

  4. For Report name, enter a name for your report.

  5. For Report additional content, select Include resource IDs to include the IDs of each individual resource in the report.

    Note

    Including resource IDs creates individual line items for each of your resources. This might increase the size of your Cost and Usage Reports files significantly, based on your AWS usage.

  6. Select Split cost allocation data to include detailed cost and usage for shared resources (Amazon ECS only).

    Note

    Including split cost allocation data creates individual line items for each of your resources (that is, ECS tasks). This might increase the size of your Cost and Usage Reports files significantly, based on your AWS usage.

  7. For Data refresh settings, select whether you want the AWS Cost and Usage Reports to refresh if AWS applies refunds, credits, or support fees to your account after finalizing your bill. When a report refreshes, a new report is uploaded to Amazon S3.

  8. Choose Next.

  9. For S3 bucket, choose Configure.

  10. In the Configure S3 bucket dialog box, do one of the following:

    • Select an existing bucket.

    • Select Create a bucket, enter a bucket name, and then choose the Region where you want to create a new bucket.

  11. Review the bucket policy, select The following default policy will be applied to your bucket, and then choose Save.

  12. For Report path prefix, enter the report path prefix that you want prepended to the name of your report.

  13. For Time granularity, choose one of the following:

    • Hourly if you want the line items in the report to be aggregated by the hour.

    • Daily if you want the line items in the report to be aggregated by the day.

    • Monthly if you want the line items in the report to be aggregated by month.

  14. For Report versioning, choose whether you want each version of the report to overwrite the previous version of the report or to be delivered in addition to the previous versions.

    Overwriting reports can save on Amazon S3 storage costs. Delivering new report versions can improve auditability of billing data over time.

  15. For Enable report data integration for, select whether you want to enable your Cost and Usage Reports to integrate with Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, or Amazon QuickSight. The report is compressed in the following formats:

    • Athena: parquet format

    • Amazon Redshift or Amazon QuickSight: .gz compression

  16. Choose Next.

  17. After you have reviewed the settings for your report, choose Review and Complete.

You can always return to the Cost & Usage Reports section of your Billing and Cost Management console to see when your reports were last updated.