Create Cost and Usage Reports

You can create a new Cost and Usage Report (CUR) from the AWS console. For details, see Creating reports in the AWS Data Exports User Guide.

When creating the report, use the following settings:

1. Under Export details, choose Standard data export.

2. For Export name, enter billing-{your aws account number}. Replace {your aws account number} with a valid AWS account ID.

3. Under Data table content settings, select CUR 2.0.

4. For Additional export content, select Include resource IDs. Leave the Split cost allocation data checkbox clear.

5. For Time granularity, choose Hourly.

6. Under Data export delivery options, do the following:

   1. For Compression type and file format, select Parquet - Parquet.

   2. For File versioning, select Overwrite existing data export file.

7. Under Data export storage settings, enter the S3 bucket name as billing-export-{your aws account number}. Replace {your aws account number} with a valid AWS account ID.

8. For S3 path prefix, enter reports as your prefix.

The following image displays the recommended CUR settings:

Cost and Usage Report settings