Logging Billing and Cost Management API calls with AWS CloudTrail - AWS Billing

Logging Billing and Cost Management API calls with AWS CloudTrail

Billing and Cost Management is integrated with AWS CloudTrail, a service that provides a record of actions taken by a user, role, or an AWS service in Billing and Cost Management. CloudTrail captures API calls for Billing and Cost Management as events, including calls from the Billing and Cost Management console and from code calls to the Billing and Cost Management APIs. For a full list of CloudTrail events related to Billing, see Billing CloudTrail events.

If you create a trail, you can enable continuous delivery of CloudTrail events to an Amazon S3 bucket, including events for Billing and Cost Management. If you don't configure a trail, you can still view the most recent events in the CloudTrail console in Event history. Using the information collected by CloudTrail, you can determine the request that was made to Billing and Cost Management, the IP address from which the request was made, who made the request, when it was made, and additional details.

To learn more about CloudTrail, including how to configure and enable it, see the AWS CloudTrail User Guide.

Billing CloudTrail events

This section shows a full list of the CloudTrail events related to Billing and Cost Management.

Notes

The following CloudTrail events use a different event source instead of billingconsole.amazonaws.com:

  • CreateCustomerCase, GetTaxExemptionTypes, and BatchGetTaxExemptions use taxconsole.amazonaws.com.

  • CreateCustomerVerificationDetails, GetCustomerVerificationDetails GetCustomerVerificationEligibility, and UpdateCustomerVerificationDetails use customer-verification.amazonaws.com.

  • AddPurchaseOrder, DeletePurchaseOrder, ListPurchaseOrders, GetPurchaseOrder, ListPurchaseOrderInvoices, UpdatePurchaseOrderStatus, UpdatePurchaseOrder, TagResource, UntagResource, and ListTagsForResource use purchase-orders.amazonaws.com.

Event name Definition

AddPurchaseOrder

Logs the creation of a purchase order.

AcceptFxPaymentCurrencyTermsAndConditions

Logs the acceptance of the terms and conditions of paying in a currency other than USD.

BatchGetTaxExemptions

Logs the access to US tax exemptions of an account, and any linked accounts.

CloseAccount

Logs the closing of an account.

CreateCustomerCase

Logs the creation of a customer support case to validate US tax exemption for an account.

CreateCustomerVerificationDetails

(For customers with an India billing or contact address only)

Logs the creation of the customer verification details of the account.

CreateOrigamiReportPreference

Logs the creation of the cost and usage report; management account only.

DeletePurchaseOrder

Logs the deletion of a purchase order.

DeleteOrigamiReportPreferences

Logs the deletion of the cost and usage report; management account only.

DownloadCommercialInvoice

Logs the download of a commercial invoice.

DownloadECSVForBillingPeriod

Logs the download of the eCSV file (monthly usage report) for a specific billing period.

DownloadRegistrationDocument

Logs the download of the tax registration document.

DownloadTaxInvoice

Logs the download of a tax invoice.

EnableBillingAlerts

Logs the opt-in of receiving CloudWatch billing alerts for estimated charges.

FindECSVForBillingPeriod

Logs the retrieval of the ECSV file for a specific billing period.

GetAccountEDPStatus

Logs the retrieval of the account’s EDP status.

GetAddresses

Logs the access to tax address, billing address, and contact address of an account.

GetAllAccounts

Logs the access to all member account numbers of the management account.

GetAllAccountDetails

Logs the access to tax registration details of all member accounts of the management account.

GetBillsForBillingPeriod

Logs the access of the account's usage and charges for a specific billing period.

GetBillsForLinkedAccount

Logs the access of a management account retrieving the usage and charges of one of the member accounts in the consolidated billing family for a specific billing period.

GetCommercialInvoicesForBillingPeriod

Logs the access to the account's commercial invoices metadata for the specific billing period.

GetConsolidatedBillingFamilySummary

Logs the access of the management account retrieving the summary of the entire consolidated billing family.

GetCustomerVerificationEligibility

(For customers with an India billing or contact address only)

Logs the retrieval of the customer verification eligibility of the account.

GetCustomerVerificationDetails

(For customers with an India billing or contact address only)

Logs the retrieval of the customer verification details of the account.

GetLinkedAccountNames

Logs the retrieval from a management account of the member account names belonging to its consolidated billing family for a specific billing period.

GetPurchaseOrder

Logs the retrieval of a purchase order.

GetSupportedCountryCodes

Logs the access to all country codes supported by tax console.

GetTaxExemptionTypes

Logs the access to all supported US exemption types by tax console.

GetTaxInheritance

Logs the access to tax inheritance preference (turning on or off) of an account.

GetTaxInvoicesMetadata

Logs the retrieval of tax invoices metadata.

GetTaxRegistration

Logs the access to the tax registration number of an account.

GetTotal

Logs the retrieval of the account’s total charges.

GetTotalAmountForForecast

Logs the access to the forecasted charges for the specific billing period.

ListCostAllocationTags

Logs the retrieval and listing of cost allocation tags.

ListPurchaseOrders

Logs the retrieval and listing of purchase orders.

ListPurchaseOrderInvoices

Logs of the retrieval and list of invoices associated to a purchase order.

ListTagsForResource

Lists the tags associated with a resource for a purchase order.

PreviewTaxRegistrationChange

Logs the preview of tax registration changes before confirmation.

RedeemPromoCode

Logs the redemption of promotional credits for an account.

SetAccountContractMetadata

Logs the creation, deletion, or update of the necessary contract information for public sector customers.

SetAccountPreferences

Logs the updates of the account name, email, and password.

SetAdditionalContacts

Logs the creation, deletion, or update of the alternate contacts for billing, operations, and security communications.

SetContactAddress

Logs the creation, deletion, or update of the account owner contact information, including the address and phone number.

SetCreatedByOptIn

Logs the opt-in of the awscreatedby cost allocation tag preference.

SetCreditSharing

Logs the history of the credit sharing preference for the management account.

SetFreetierBudgetsPreference

Logs the preference (opt-in or opt-out) of receiving Free Tier usage alerts.

SetFxPaymentCurrency

Logs the creation, deletion, or update of the preferred currency used to pay your invoice.

SetIAMAccessPreference

Logs the creation, deletion, or update of the IAM users ability to access to the billing console. This setting is only for customers with root access.

SetPANInformation

Logs the creating, deletion, or update of PAN information under AWS India.

SetPayInformation

Logs the payment method history (invoice or credit/debit card) for the account.

SetRISharing

Logs the history of the RI/Savings Plans sharing preference for the management account.

SetSecurityQuestions

Logs the creation, deletion, or update of the security challenge questions to help AWS identify you as the owner of the account.

SetTagKeysState

Logs the active or inactive state of a particular cost allocation tag.

SetTaxInheritance

Logs the preference (opt-in or opt-out) of tax inheritance.

SetTaxRegistration

Logs the creation, deletion, or update of the tax registration number for an account.

TagResource

Logs the tagging of a resource for a purchase order.

UntagResource

Logs the deletion of tags from a resource for a purchase order.

UpdateCustomerVerificationDetails

(For customers with an India billing or contact address only)

Logs the update of the customer verification details of the account.

UpdateOrigamiReportPreference

Logs the update of the cost and usage report; management account only.

UpdatePurchaseOrder

Logs the update of a purchase order.

UpdatePurchaseOrderStatus

Logs the update of a purchase order status.

ValidateAddress

Logs the validation of the tax address of an account.

Billing and Cost Management information in CloudTrail

CloudTrail is enabled on your AWS account when you create the account. When supported event activity occurs in Billing and Cost Management, that activity is recorded in a CloudTrail event along with other AWS service events in Event history. You can view, search, and download recent events in your AWS account. For more information, see Viewing Events with CloudTrail Event History in the AWS CloudTrail User Guide.

For an ongoing record of events in your AWS account, including events for Billing and Cost Management, create a trail. A trail enables CloudTrail to deliver log files to an Amazon S3 bucket. By default, when you create a trail in the console, the trail applies to all AWS Regions. The trail logs events from all Regions in the AWS partition and delivers the log files to the Amazon S3 bucket that you specify. Additionally, you can configure other AWS services to further analyze and act upon the event data collected in CloudTrail logs.

For more information, see the following:

Every event or log entry contains information about who generated the request. The identity information helps you determine the following:

  • Whether the request was made with root or IAM user credentials.

  • Whether the request was made with temporary security credentials for a role or federated user.

  • Whether the request was made by another AWS service.

For more information, see the CloudTrail userIdentity Element in the AWS CloudTrail User Guide.

CloudTrail log entry examples

The following examples are provided for specific Billing and Cost Management CloudTrail log entry scenarios.

Billing and Cost Management log file entries

A trail is a configuration that enables delivery of events as log files to an Amazon S3 bucket that you specify. CloudTrail log files contain one or more log entries. An event represents a single request from any source and includes information about the requested action, the date and time of the action, request parameters, and so on. CloudTrail log files are not an ordered stack trace of the public API calls, so they don't appear in any specific order.

The following example shows a CloudTrail log entry that demonstrates the SetContactAddress action.

{ "eventVersion": "1.05", "userIdentity": { "accountId": "111122223333", "accessKeyId": "AIDACKCEVSQ6C2EXAMPLE" }, "eventTime": "2018-05-30T16:44:04Z", "eventSource": "billingconsole.amazonaws.com", "eventName": "SetContactAddress", "awsRegion": "us-east-1", "sourceIPAddress": "100.100.10.10", "requestParameters": { "website": "https://amazon.com", "city": "Seattle", "postalCode": "98108", "fullName": "Jane Doe", "districtOrCounty": null, "phoneNumber": "206-555-0100", "countryCode": "US", "addressLine1": "Nowhere Estates", "addressLine2": "100 Main Street", "company": "AnyCompany", "state": "Washington", "addressLine3": "Anytown, USA", "secondaryPhone": "206-555-0101" }, "responseElements": null, "eventID": "5923c499-063e-44ac-80fb-b40example9f", "readOnly": false, "eventType": "AwsConsoleAction", "recipientAccountId": "1111-2222-3333" }

Tax console

The following example shows a CloudTrail log entry that uses the CreateCustomerCase action.

{ "eventVersion":"1.05", "userIdentity":{ "accountId":"111122223333", "accessKeyId":"AIDACKCEVSQ6C2EXAMPLE" }, "eventTime":"2018-05-30T16:44:04Z", "eventSource":"taxconsole.amazonaws.com", "eventName":"CreateCustomerCase", "awsRegion":"us-east-1", "sourceIPAddress":"100.100.10.10", "requestParameters":{ "state":"NJ", "exemptionType":"501C", "exemptionCertificateList":[ { "documentName":"ExemptionCertificate.png" } ] }, "responseElements":{ "caseId":"case-111122223333-iris-2022-3cd52e8dbf262242" }, "eventID":"5923c499-063e-44ac-80fb-b40example9f", "readOnly":false, "eventType":"AwsConsoleAction", "recipientAccountId":"1111-2222-3333" }