Removing Discounts

Last Updated

August 2024

Author

• Deepthi Nune, Sr. Technical Account Manager, AWS

Introduction

In this customization playbook we will describe how you can remove all Discounts information from Cloud Intelligence Dashboards (in this example CUDOS). This can be helpful if you do not want to expose Discount information to dashboard users, including Authors of customized dashboards in Amazon QuickSight.

Prerequisites

For this solution you must have the following:

• Ability to view and edit queries in Athena

Step 1 of 2. Modify Queries in Athena

You will need to modify several queries in Athena to remove discounts. Queries that you can modify to remove specific charge type are:

• summary_view

• resource_view

Navigate in the AWS Console to the Athena service

1. Select the AwsDataCatalog in the DataSource drop down.

2. In the Database drop down select the database where your CUR table is located.

3. Under Views, scroll down until you locate the summary_view.

4. Select the three dots to the right of the view and select Show/edit query from the context menu.

5. Modify the "Where" condition and include the two new "And" lines. In this example we also remove Refund, Credit and Tax along with Discounts

   WHERE (("bill_billing_period_start_date" >= ("date_trunc"('month', current_timestamp) - INTERVAL  '7' MONTH)) AND (CAST("concat"("year", '-', "month", '-01') AS date) >= ("date_trunc"('month', current_date) - INTERVAL  '7' MONTH)))
   AND line_item_line_item_type NOT LIKE '%Discount' -- New Line: remove all kind of discounts
   AND line_item_line_item_type NOT IN ('Refund',  'Credit' , 'Tax')   -- New Line: (optional) If Refund, Tax, Credit etc., also need to be removed

6. When you’ve completed adding all of the fields, click the RUN button and confirm that the query view updates successfully.

   

7. Repeat the steps above on the resource_view dataset.

Step 2 of 2. Update DataSet in Amazon QuickSight

Next the data set in Amazon QuickSight needs to be refreshed in order to view the changes immediately.

1. Navigate to Amazon QuickSight in the console.

   

2. Select Datasets on the left side of the page.

   

3. Locate summary_view in the list of datasets and click on the dataset.

4. Click on the Refresh tab in the top left of the page.

5. Click on Refresh Now button in the top right of the page.

6. Repeat the steps to refresh resource_view dataset as well.

Test

Now you can open CUDOS dashboard and check if the information about Discounts is not present.