Creating a Legacy CUR export

You can create a data export of your legacy Cost and Usage Report (CUR). This workflow uses the legacy cur APIs and doesn't allow you to use SQL to define your export contents. CUR 2.0 with its additional columns and SQL access is only available as a standard data export.

To create a legacy data export

1. Sign in to the AWS Billing and Cost Management console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/costmanagement/home#.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Data Exports.

3. Choose Create.

4. On the Create page, under Export type, choose Legacy CUR export.

5. For Export name, enter a name for your export.

6. Under Export content, select the data to include in your CUR export.

   • For Additional export content, select Include resource IDs to include the IDs of each individual resource in the export.

     Note

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

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

     Note

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

   • Select Enable manual discount format to convert your discounts so that they appear in the Cost and Usage Report in the manual discount format instead of the standard automated format.

     Note

     This is only available for customers on Discount Automation.

7. Under Data table delivery options, for Time granularity, choose one of the following:

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

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

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

8. For Report versioning, choose between the following:

   • Create new report version: Each report refresh will be written to a separate directory, even for deliveries of the same billing period. Choose this to improve the ability to audit your exports over time.

   • Overwrite existing report: Each report refresh will overwrite the previous delivery within the same billing period. Deliveries of new billing periods be delivered as new files and directories. Choose this to save on Amazon S3 storage costs.

9. For Report data integration, choose 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:

   • Amazon Athena: Selects the delivery options optimal for Amazon Athena which are Parquet file format and overwrite existing report. Also delivers a script that can be used to set up the integration.

   • Amazon Redshift: Selects the delivery option optimal for Amazon Redshift which is gzip/csv file format. Also delivers a script that can be used to set up the integration.

   • Amazon QuickSight: Selects the delivery option optimal for Amazon QuickSight which is gzip/csv file format.

10. For Compression type and file format, choose between the following:

    • Parquet – Parquet

    • gzip – text/csv

    • zip – text/csv

11. Under Data export storage settings, for S3 bucket name, choose Configure.

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

    • Select existing bucket.

    • Choose Create a bucket, enter an S3 bucket name, and then choose the Region where you want to create a new bucket.

13. Review the Bucket policy, and then choose Create bucket.

14. For S3 path prefix, enter the S3 path prefix that you want prepended to the name of your export.

15. Under Tags, you can choose to add up to 50 tags in order to search and filter your resources or track your AWS costs.

    Note

    Adding tags is optional.

16. Choose Create report.