AWS Cost and Usage Report examples using AWS CLI - AWS Command Line Interface
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AWS Cost and Usage Report examples using AWS CLI

The following code examples show you how to perform actions and implement common scenarios by using the AWS Command Line Interface with AWS Cost and Usage Report.

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The following code example shows how to use delete-report-definition.

AWS CLI

To delete an AWS Cost and Usage Report

This example deletes an AWS Cost and Usage Report.

Command:

aws cur --region us-east-1 delete-report-definition --report-name "ExampleReport"

The following code example shows how to use describe-report-definitions.

AWS CLI

To retrieve a list of AWS Cost and Usage Reports

This example describes a list of AWS Cost and Usage Reports owned by an account.

Command:

aws cur --region us-east-1 describe-report-definitions --max-items 5

Output:

  {
"ReportDefinitions": [
  {
      "ReportName": "ExampleReport",
      "Compression": "ZIP",
      "S3Region": "us-east-1",
      "Format": "textORcsv",
      "S3Prefix": "exampleprefix",
      "S3Bucket": "example-s3-bucket",
      "TimeUnit": "DAILY",
      "AdditionalArtifacts": [
          "REDSHIFT",
          "QUICKSIGHT"
      ],
      "AdditionalSchemaElements": [
          "RESOURCES"
      ]
  }
]
  }

The following code example shows how to use put-report-definition.

AWS CLI

To create an AWS Cost and Usage Reports

The following put-report-definition example creates a daily AWS Cost and Usage Report that you can upload into Amazon Redshift or Amazon QuickSight.

aws cur put-report-definition --report-definition file://report-definition.json

Contents of report-definition.json:

{
    "ReportName": "ExampleReport",
    "TimeUnit": "DAILY",
    "Format": "textORcsv",
    "Compression": "ZIP",
    "AdditionalSchemaElements": [
        "RESOURCES"
    ],
    "S3Bucket": "example-s3-bucket",
    "S3Prefix": "exampleprefix",
    "S3Region": "us-east-1",
    "AdditionalArtifacts": [
        "REDSHIFT",
        "QUICKSIGHT"
    ]
}