A step-by-step guide to create cost reports in AWS
The Cost reports help in understanding the cloud cost for using the Atlan product.
They can prove helpful in the following ways 👇
1.
Identify cost for individual components like query, data quality, etc inside Atlan.
2.
Calculate Atlan's cost specifically if you are running stack in a shared account.
3.
Forecast and plan the budget for Atlan.
📜 Prerequisites
The current AWS user should have Billing IAM permission.
🛠️ A Step-by-Step Guide for Creating Cost Reports in AWS
PART 1: Activate “stack:name” tag in "Cost Allocation Tags" section
Follow the pointers given below to activate the "stack:name" tag.
Log in to AWS, search for billing, and select it.
AWS Management Console Search Billing
Click on the "Cost allocation tags" option given on the left menu to navigate to that section.
AWS Billing Dashboard
Search for the tag "stack: name" under the "User-defined cost allocation tags" section and activate it. The tag is already active in the image shown below.
Cost Allocation Tags Section
PART 2: Cost Report Creation
Post 24 hours from activation of the "stack:name" tag, log into AWS. Search for "cost explorer" and select it.
AWS Management Console Search Cost Explorer
Click on the Reports option on the left menu to navigate to the section.
AWS Cost Management Dashboard
To create a new report, click on the orange button "Create new report" on the top right.
Reports Section
Select "Cost and Usage" as report type, and click on the "Create Report" orange button given at the bottom right.
Create New Cost Report
Modify the duration as per requirement.
Change Report Duration
For example, click on the MTD option from the drop-down to select the Month to Date (MTD) format.
Duration: MTD
You can also select last week (7D) by clicking on 7D.
Duration: 7D
Similarly, you can choose to see just yesterday's data by clicking 1D.
Duration: 1D
You can also change the granularity i.e. the frequency of the graph. The option to do that is given just next to the time drop-down.
Change Report Granularity
For daily data, select granularity as "Daily".
Granularity: Daily
Group costs by Service.
Group by: Service
Uncheck "Show forecasted values" under "ADVANCED OPTIONS".
Uncheck Show forecasted values
You can also change the costs and choose from the drop-down "Show costs as".
Change Report Costs
Let's select "Blended costs" from the drop-down as an example.
Blended costs
Click on the filter: Tag
Click on Tags
Type "stack:name" in the search under Tag and select it.
Search "stack:name"
Under the "stack:name" tag, search the name of Atlan's CloudFormation stack (here we use "infrapoc"), select it, and click on the "Apply filters" button in blue.
Search CF Stack name
Save the report by clicking the "Save as..." button on the top left.
Save the Report
Enter the report's name and click on the "Save Report".
Enter Report name and save it
🎉 Your report is now ready.
PART 3: Access and download report
After saving the report, go to the "Reports Section" from the left menu.
To the Reports Section
Search for the newly created report using the report name.
Search for Report
Click on the report to view the report and download the report by clicking on Download CSV.
Download as CSV
The report will be downloaded as a file named 'costs.csv'.
CSV downloaded as costs.csv
The downloaded CSV will have 'Services' as columns and 'Dates' as rows.
CSV File
You can now easily share this file with requisite people on your team 🤓