Account use of Daily CUR Data or Hourly Data

Products

• CloudHealth

Issue/Introduction

Below are steps to verify what time interval of data is being utilized to populate reporting:

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.