AWS Cost & Usage Report
What is AWS Cost & Usage Report?
AWS Cost & Usage Report (AWS CUR) allows users to access the detailed set of AWS cost and usage data available, including metadata about AWS resources, pricing, Reserved Instances, and Savings Plans.
AWS Cost & Usage Report is a part of AWS Cost Explorer.
● AWS Cost and Usage Reports functions:
○ It sends report files to your Amazon S3 bucket.
○ It updates reports up to three times a day.
○ It creates, retrieves, and deletes reports using the AWS CUR API Reference.
● There is a feature of Data Dictionary that lists the columns added in the report to easily analyze cost and usage in detail.
● For viewing, reports can be downloaded from the Amazon S3 console, for analyzing the report Amazon Athena can be used, or upload the report into Amazon Redshift or Amazon QuickSight.
● Users with IAM permissions or IAM roles can access and view the reports.
● If a member account in an organization owns or creates a Cost and Usage Report, then it can have access only to billing data for the time it has been a member of the Organization.
● If the master account of an AWS Organization wants to block access to the member accounts to set-up a Cost and Usage Report, Service Control Policy (SCP) can be used.
