How to tell whether my account is using Daily CUR Data or Hourly Data?

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Issue/Introduction

Learn how to tell whether an account is using Daily CUR Data or Hourly Data.

Resolution

1. Log in to the AWS Billing and Cost Management Console.

2. From the left menu, select Reports.

3. Verify that a Cost and Usage Report has been created using an Hourly interval.

4. In the AWS Console, select Services > S3.

5. Select the S3 bucket that stores the hourly CUR data.

6. Within the bucket, locate the hourly CUR .csv file and download it.

7. Open a terminal session and move to the directory where the CUR .csv is saved.

8. Run this command to break down the CSV data in your terminal: Tail -n 2000 <filename>.csv This command outputs the last 2000 entries of your CSV file in your terminal.

9. The beginning of each output should have the following syntax:

   <instanceID>, <time interval>

   Example: xxxxxx123456xxxxxx123456xxxxxx123456xxxxxx123456,2017-03-06T06:00:00Z/2017-03-06T07:00:00Z

10. Review outputs to verify that the Time Interval is progressing instead of showing T00:00:00 for all entries. If you see this behavior, you are using your Daily CUR data instead of Hourly Data.