AWS Billing (old)

Enabling AWS Detailed Billing Reports (DBR) In Amazon Console

 

1. Navigate to Billing & Cost Management Dashboard under your username in your Amazon console.



2. Select Preferences → Billing Preferences on the left to view Billing Reports options.

3. In the section 'Detailed Billing Reports' check the box "Turn on the legacy Detailed Billing Reports feature to receive ongoing reports of your AWS charges". Select Receive Billing Reports, Monthly report, Detailed billing report, Cost allocation report, and Detailed billing report with resources and tags.

4. Select an S3 bucket to store your billing files in: Configure → Verify → Valid Bucket.

5. Ensure you include tags in your billing reports. Click Manage report tags to review the list of all the tags you have created and activate the ones relevant to your AWS usage.



6. Go back to Billing preferences. Click Save preferences.

Setting Up AWS Billing Integration In Cloudaware

 

1. Add your Amazon Payer account to Cloudaware. See more here.

2. Cloudaware automatically discovers the bucket your billing data is stored in. Allow some time for the bucket to be listed in CMDB Navigator S3 to proceed. 

3. Go to Admin → N Configured in AWS accounts → select the Payer account → click three dots and select "Download CloudFormation Template" to download the template where the billing bucket info is input by Cloudaware.

4. Update the template in your AWS console to provide Cloudaware with read-access to your billing files.

5. The billing data will be collected by Cloudaware within several hours.

Enabling AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR) In Amazon Console

 

1. Enable CUR reports in your AWS console

2. Check the integration status in Cloudaware