Sharing custom billing views
You can share custom billing views with accounts within your Amazon Organization. Sharing is not supported for billing views of type “Primary” or “Billing group”.
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For member accounts within an organization to access a shared custom billing view using Cost Explorer, the management account must have granted them access to Cost Explorer. Member account access to discounts, credits, and refunds when accessing a shared custom billing view is determined by current Cost Explorer preferences, including Linked Account Access, Linked Account Refunds and Credits, and Linked Account Discounts. For more information, see Controlling access using Cost Explorer preferences.
To share a custom billing view
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Open the Billing and Cost Management console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/costmanagement/
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In the navigation pane, choose Cost Management Preferences.
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Choose the Billing View tab.
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To access the sharing page, do one of the following:
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Select the custom billing view you want to share, and choose Share view.
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Choose the name of the custom billing view you want to share and, on the view details page, choose the Sharing tab.
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Choose Share.
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Select a managed permission for the custom billing view. Managed permissions define how recipient accounts can interact with the shared resource. For more information about managed permissions, see Managing permissions in Amazon RAM.
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Select the member accounts in your organization that you want to share the custom billing view with.
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Choose Share.
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Custom billing views use Amazon Resource Access Manager (Amazon RAM) for sharing. When you share a custom billing view, an Amazon resource share is automatically created. You can directly share custom billing view resources with specific accounts in your organization using Amazon RAM. Only the management account needs permissions to share resources with Amazon RAM, with no permissions required for member accounts receiving a shared resource.
For more advanced use cases such as sharing with an entire Amazon Organizational Unit or defining custom managed policies, create a resource share directly through Amazon RAM. When a custom billing view has been shared with IAM principals, other than an Amazon account, directly through Amazon RAM, these shares are displayed under Other principals shared with in the Sharing tab on the view details page. Resource shares created directly through Amazon RAM can only be managed in Amazon RAM.
Once a custom billing view is shared, you can see which accounts have access to it from the Sharing tab on the view details page. Note that if you're using Amazon Billing Conductor, a custom billing view contains cost management data based on your standard Amazon bill, even when being accessed by an account belonging to a billing group. Additionally, you can view a list of all resource shares you’ve created in Amazon RAM. For more information, see Viewing resource shares you created in Amazon RAM.
You have the flexibility to edit the sharing permissions of a custom billing view at any time, allowing you to maintain control over who has access to your cost management data. For details, see Managing shared access to custom billing views.