Copy Billing Data (Payees)

Before you continue, please make sure you are on the correct Copy Billing Data page:

  • From Cost > AWS Partners > Configure > Account Families: copy charges from an account family into an S3 bucket
  • From Cost > AWS Partners > Files > Copy Billing Data: copy your complete billing report or charges from a payee into an S3 bucket
The Copy Billing Data report allows you to copy your complete billing report or a subset of charges from your billing report into an S3 bucket inside a payee account.

CloudCheckr checks for updates to the Payer account every hour. When it finds a change, it downloads the file, creates a subset for each of the payee accounts, and copies that file into your selected S3 bucket.

This topic shows you how to copy your billing data for a payee or payees into a selected S3 bucket.

Procedure

  1. From the navigation pane, choose Cost > AWS Partner Tools > Files > Copy Billing Data.

    The Copy Billing Data page opens.

  2. Select the Copy complete report or Copy individual payees tab.
  3. Click a button to follow the instructions related to your selected tab:

    These instructions assume that you:
    • created an S3 bucket and saved it to an AWS payer or payee account
    • created a CloudCheckr account that will ingest the data from your AWS account
    • configured your CloudCheckr account using IAM access keys or a cross-acount role

    1. Log in to the AWS Management Console.
    2. Click All services, locate the Security, Identity & Compliance section, and select IAM.
    3. From the dashboard, click Policies.
    4. Click the JSON tab.
    5. Replace the JSON text with the following policy: 

      {
          "Version": "2012-10-17",
          "Statement": [
              {
                  "Sid": "Stmt1443712554000",
                  "Effect": "Allow",
                  "Action": [
                      "s3:DeleteObject",
                      "s3:GetBucketLocation",
                      "s3:ListObject",
                      "s3:PutObject"
                  ],
                  "Resource": [
                      "arn:aws:s3:::your-target-S3-bucket-name-here*"
                  ]
              }
          ]
      }
    6. Replace your-target-S3-bucket-name-here with the name of your S3 bucket.
    7. Click Review policy.
    8. Type a name for your policy, and click Create policy.

      AWS adds the new policy to the list.

    1. Return to the Copy Billing Data page in CloudCheckr.
    2. Verify that you are in the Copy complete report tab.
    3. Select the Configure S3 bucket to copy into checkbox.

      CloudCheckr displays additional options.

    4. In the Bucket Name field, type the name of the bucket.
    5. From the Cost Type drop-down menu, select:
      • Amazon to use Amazon Unblended or Blended costs
        • or
      • Custom to use CloudCheckr List cost
    6. Apply the correct credentials.
      • If the S3 bucket exists in the AWS account associated with the current CloudCheckr account, select the Use current CloudCheckr credentials checkbox.
      • If the S3 bucket exists in a different account, paste the access key and secret key of the IAM user for that account.
    7. Click Save.

    These instructions assume that you:
    • created an S3 bucket and saved it to an AWS payer or payee account
    • created a CloudCheckr account that will ingest the data from your AWS account
    • configured your CloudCheckr account using IAM access keys or a cross-acount role

    1. Log in to the AWS Management Console.
    2. Click All services, locate the Security, Identity & Compliance section, and select IAM.
    3. From the dashboard, click Policies.
    4. Click the JSON tab.
    5. Replace the JSON text with the following policy: 

      {
          "Version": "2012-10-17",
          "Statement": [
              {
                  "Sid": "Stmt1443712554000",
                  "Effect": "Allow",
                  "Action": [
                      "s3:DeleteObject",
                      "s3:GetBucketLocation",
                      "s3:ListObject",
                      "s3:PutObject"
                  ],
                  "Resource": [
                      "arn:aws:s3:::your-target-S3-bucket-name-here*"
                  ]
              }
          ]
      }
    6. Replace your-target-S3-bucket-name-here with the name of your S3 bucket.
    7. Click Review policy.
    8. Type a name for your policy, and click Create policy.

      AWS adds the new policy to the list.

    1. Return to the Copy Billing Data page in CloudCheckr.
    2. Click the Copy individual payees tab.

      The page provides options to modify existing payees or configure other payees that you want to copy.

    To modify an existing payee:
    1. Select a bucket from the first table.
    2. Click the Edit icon.

      A new page opens—allowing you to modify the configuration.

    3. In the Bucket Name field, change the name of the bucket.
    4. From the Cost Type drop-down menu, select:
      • Amazon to use Amazon Unblended or Blended costs
        • or
      • Custom to use CloudCheckr List cost
    5. Modify your credentials.
      • If the S3 bucket exists in the AWS account associated with the current CloudCheckr account, select the Use current CloudCheckr credentials checkbox.
      • If the S3 bucket exists in a different account, paste the access key and secret key of the IAM user for that account.
    6. Click Save.

    To configure other payees:
    1. From the Setup payee configurations section, select a payee from the table.
    2. Click the Edit icon.

      A new page opens—allowing you to configure a new payee.

    3. In the Bucket Name field, change the name of the bucket.
    4. From the Cost Type drop-down menu, select:
      • Amazon to use Amazon Unblended or Blended costs
        • or
      • Custom to use CloudCheckr List cost
    5. In the Tags section, select one of these radio buttons:
      • Copy only tag columns with data
      • Copy ALL tag columns from your payer DBR (even if no data)
      • Copy selected tag columns from payer DBR (even if no data)

        If you select this radio button, you must also select the tag columns from the list

    6. Apply the credentials.
      • If the S3 bucket exists in the AWS account associated with the current CloudCheckr account, select the Use current CloudCheckr credentials checkbox.
      • If the S3 bucket exists in a different account, paste the access key and secret key of the IAM user for that account.
    7. Click Save.

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