AWS Billing walkthrough
AWS Billing and Cost Management API Version 2 is currently supported.
AWS Billing and Cost Management is a web service that lets you pay your invoices and manage your expenses.
Connection
- To connect AWS Billing with your destination, follow these steps.
- Choose a Source Connection after you have created a connection.
Reports
In AWS Billing, there are two types of reports available:
- Predefined Reports
- Custom Reports
Predefined reports
Click here to view Predefined Reports.
Custom reports
Create custom reports, and select a specific report to pull data from AWS Billing after establishing a connection.
- Each report requires incremental data extraction by choosing a Date Range and Time period.
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Start Date is mandatory.
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You can retrieve Data for the date range specified between the start and end dates.
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If you leave the end date blank, the data is pulled at the current time of the river's run.
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Dates timezone: UTC.
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Use the Last Days Back For Each Run option to gather data from a specified number of days before the selected start date.
- Dimension Filters are available for use on each report.
Each option applies a different dimension to the data pulled. The documentation for each dimension can be accessed on the AWS webpage.
- You can also select from the following options for all reports other than Cost Categories:
- Granularity: It establishes the time frame in which your response will be split.
Obtaining the last 14 days of Hourly granularity is possible.
- Metrics: It sets the metrics that will be returned in the query. To learn more, refer to the Blended Cost metric.
