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Cost and Usage Report (CUR)

You can obtain hourly details of the amount and cost of services used in AWS in CSV format, which is output to a specified S3 bucket approximately twice a day. To retrieve the report, follow the steps below to set it up.

Setup Procedure​

Please create the S3 bucket "cm-cur-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" (xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is your AWS account ID) according to the following procedure. The bucket will be automatically output the day after you create it.

  1. Log in to the AWS Management Console of the AWS account you want to output the CUR to in your browser.
  2. click here (it's a quick create link in CloudFormation)
  3. Click on the "Create" button to create an S3 bucket in the Tokyo region.

Stop output​

If you want to stop the output of the CUR, you can do one of the following

  • Deletion of S3 bucket "cm-cur-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx".
  • Delete the bucket policy set in the S3 bucket "cm-cur-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx".

Precautions​

  • Please refer to the [CUR User's Guide] (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cur/latest/userguide/data-dictionary.html) for more information about the items that are output to the CUR. However, there are some items that are not output.
  • After the CUR output setting was enabled, you can get CURs of the only specific period after enabled. In other words, the CURs of the passed period before the output setting was enabled are not available.
  • We don't support the request regarding reporting CURs by us. So you could get CURs automatically outputted by your appropriate settings only.