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Getting the export · AWS

How to export one month of AWS costs.

A CUR 2.0 or FOCUS Data Export, or a Cost Explorer CSV: the exact clicks, what the file must contain, and a sample to compare against. One month is enough. The file is read in your browser tab and never uploaded.

Cost and Usage Report (CUR 2.0)

~10 MIN, ONE TIME · THEN UP TO 24 H

Recommended: every server is mapped exactly

  1. Open Billing and Cost Management → Data Exports and choose Create. A FOCUS 1.0 export works as well as CUR 2.0; both are read to the same depth.
  2. Standard data export, table CUR 2.0. Leave “Include resource IDs” off (not used here, and it makes the file several times larger). Not FOCUS 1.0: this tool cannot read it yet.
  3. Format Parquet or CSV gzip, delivered to an S3 bucket. The first delivery takes up to 24 hours.
  4. Download one month. If the month arrived as several files, drop in the largest one.

Gives instance types and hours, so every host is priced from a real server match. Parquet is smaller and faster to parse.

Cost Explorer CSV

~60 SEC
  1. Open Cost Explorer. If it has never been opened, enabling it takes up to 24 hours.
  2. Granularity Monthly, group by Service, last 3 months. Under Advanced options choose Net amortized costs, so commitments are spread the way the full report does.
  3. Download CSV and drop it here.

Service totals only: servers are estimated from spend and every service is priced by ratio, so the figure is rougher. Good for a first look.

What the file needs to contain

Download a sample to compare

Column names are matched case-insensitively; extra columns are ignored.

  • line_item_product_code
  • line_item_usage_type
  • line_item_usage_amount
  • line_item_unblended_cost
  • line_item_usage_start_date
  • product_instance_type
  • line_item_line_item_type

Legacy CUR headers (lineItem/ProductCode …) work too; net and reservation effective-cost columns are used when present. A Cost Explorer CSV needs a Service column plus one column per month.

Have the file? Open the calculator and drop it in, or start from the AWS sample.