Creating custom billing views

Custom billing views allow you to grant member accounts in your organization specific, controlled access to cost management data. A custom billing view contains a subset of the cost management data contained in your management account's primary billing view. Once created, these custom billing view resources can then be shared with the relevant member accounts, enabling tailored data visibility across your organization. If you're using AWS Billing Conductor, a custom billing view contains cost management data based on your standard AWS bill, even when being accessed by an account belonging to a billing group.

Note

To create custom billing views, you must use fine-grained AWS Cost Management actions. For more information, see Prerequisites.

To create a custom billing view

1. Open the Billing and Cost Management console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/costmanagement/.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Cost Management Preferences.

3. Choose the Billing View tab.

4. Choose Create view.

5. Choose a single dimension to filter and include cost management data in the custom billing view. Also, for your chosen dimension, specify the values to include.

   • Cost allocation tags: This filter is recommended if you use cost allocation tags to organize and manage your spend. This field is restricted to one key, but allows multiple values within that key. For example, you can create a custom billing view containing all usage records with the cost allocation tag where the key is Cost Center and the values are 80432 or 78925. For more information about cost allocation tags, see Organizing and tracking costs using AWS cost allocation tags.

   • Accounts: This filter allows you to include cost management data for specific accounts in the custom billing view by selecting one or more account IDs. This is useful for creating custom billing views that focus on particular accounts or groups of accounts within your organization.

6. For Custom billing view name, enter a name for your custom billing view. We recommend using a short, descriptive name that indicates the data in the custom billing view. This helps end users quickly understand the custom billing view’s content when selecting it from the Choose billing view menu in the navigation pane.

7. (Optional) For Custom billing view description, enter a description for your custom billing view. This description will be visible in the Billing View tab, helping you identify the content of this specific custom billing view.

8. (Optional) Add a tag to your custom billing view. For more information about tags, see Tagging AWS resources in the AWS General Reference guide.

   1. Choose Add new tag.

   2. Enter the key and value for the tag.

   3. Choose Add new tag to add additional tags. The maximum number of tags that you can add is 50.

9. Choose Create to finalize your custom billing view. Once created, the custom billing view is assigned a unique Amazon Resource Name (ARN), which serves as its identifier.

After creating a custom billing view, it is only available in your account. You can access it from the Choose billing view menu in the navigation pane from your own account to access its contents using Cost Explorer. You can also see the custom billing view definition details in the Billing View tab on the Cost Management Preferences page. You can choose to share the custom billing view with member accounts within your organization. Shared accounts can access the custom billing view from the Choose billing view menu, allowing them to access the cost management data defined in the custom billing view. To learn more, see Sharing custom billing views.