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The Cost and Usage Report is the standard report from AWS for customers to understand and manage their costs. The Cost and Usage Report drives most cloud cost management tools, including AWS Cost Explorer. This documentation will outline the essential fields in the Cost and Usage Report, explain how those fields can be used for cloud cost management, and provide sample values users can use to build queries based on usage in their accounts.
The Cost and Usage Report
The Cost and Usage Report is the standard billing report for AWS Customers. This report is free (except for the S3 storage costs) and can be created by anyone with the proper billing permissions. For more details on the Cost and Usage Report, how to make a report, and getting started with analysis, check out this overview in the Developer's Guide to AWS Costs.
This report contains over 200 fields and can be millions of records for a single month of usage. Using the documentation below, we are taking the ~200 fields in the Cost and Usage Report and filtering it down to only 30 of the most critical fields. These 30 fields will answer most of your cost management questions and greatly simplify your cloud cost management practices.
Cost and Usage Report Field Categories
There are seven categories of cost fields across all Cost and Usage Reports: Bill, Identity, Pricing, Line Item, Product, Reservation, and Savings Plans. Below, we will break out the essential fields by field categories, provide details about what these fields describe, and provide sample values that will show up in your cost and usage report.
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