FinOps Center leverages the Cost and Usage Report that is created in the Management Account. In later steps we will setup replication of the CUR via S3 Bucket Replication.
To set up Cost and Usage Reports for FinOps Center, follow these steps:
- Sign in to the Billing and Cost Management console here.
- Navigate to Cost & Usage Reports in the left-hand pane.
- Click on Create report.
- Provide a name for your report under Report name.
- Optionally, select Include resource IDs to include individual resource IDs in the report. Note that this may significantly increase the report's size.
- If applicable, choose Split cost allocation data to include detailed cost and usage for shared resources (Amazon ECS only). Again, note that this may increase report size.
- Configure Data refresh settings based on your preference for report updates.
- Proceed to S3 bucket configuration by clicking Configure.
- Choose an existing bucket or create a new one, specifying the region.
- Review and save the bucket policy.
- Specify a report path prefix to be prepended to the report name.
- Choose the desired time granularity for report aggregation: Hourly, Daily, or Monthly.
- Decide on report versioning: Overwrite previous versions or deliver new versions in addition to previous ones.
- Select Enable report data integration for the desired analytics tools: Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, or Amazon QuickSight. Note the compression formats used for each.
- Click Next to proceed.
- Review all settings for the report.
Finally, choose Review and Complete to finalize the setup.Remember to check the Cost & Usage Reports section of the Billing and Cost Management console to monitor when your reports were last updated.S3 path prefix: FinOpsCenter/<CURNAME>