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Amazon Cost and Usage Report examples using Amazon CLI

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

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

Amazon CLI

To delete an Amazon Cost and Usage Report

This example deletes an Amazon 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.

Amazon CLI

To retrieve a list of Amazon Cost and Usage Reports

This example describes a list of Amazon 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.

Amazon CLI

To create an Amazon Cost and Usage Reports

The following put-report-definition example creates a daily Amazon 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"
    ]
}