AWS CUR

AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR) Overview

• The most comprehensive set of cost and usage data available for AWS spending

• Publish billing reports to Amazon S3 for centralised collection

• Break costs down by the time span (hour, day and month), service and resource, or by tags

• AWS CUR updates reports in Amazon S3 buckets once a day using CSV formats.

• Easily integrate with service like:

  • Athena, for data Analysis

  • Redshift, for data transformation

  • QuickSight, for data visualisation

Use cases:

1. Use with AWS Organizations, for entire OU groups, or individual member accounts.

2. Track savings plans utilizations, charges, and current allocations.

3. monitor on-demand capacity reservations.

4. break down your AWS data transfer charges (external and inter-regions)

5. It allows to dive into cost allocation spending via tags (e.g. via enviorment a application team group)