Creating AWS Export

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Dusan Dordevic
Creating AWS Export

For us to analyse your Amazon AWS bill you need to send it to us. One of choices is to create standard data export. Here are details how to do it:

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 export
4. On the Create export page, under Export type, choose Standard data export
5. For Export name, enter a name for your export. We suggest EIC_export_<your company name>
6. Under Data table content setting pick CUR 2.0
7. Under Data table configurations tick Include Resource IDs
8. Select Split cost allocation data to include detailed cost and usage for shared resources (Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS).
9. Time granularity should be Daily. If you have lots on daily changes (create/destroy lots of AWS resources daily) you can pick hourly
10. Under Data export delivery options pick any. We support both Parquet and gzip/csv, so you can choose one that might be of use to you as well
11. For File versioning pick Create new data export file
12. Under Data export storage settings, for S3 bucket name, choose Configure
13. In the Configure S3 bucket dialog box, do one of the following:
   1. Select existing bucket
   2. Choose Create a bucket, enter an S3 bucket name, and then choose the Region where you want to create a new bucket
14. Review the Bucket policy. If you're selecting an existing bucket, you need to acknowledge that Data Exports will overwrite you existing S3 bucket policy. The new policy will allow both CUR and Data Exports to deliver exports
15. For S3 path prefix, enter a name for the directory that will be created in your S3 bucket to store all the export data
16. Choose Create to complete the creation of your export

You can find documentation about data exports on AWS site https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cur/latest/userguide/dataexports-create-standard.html