Overview of AWS billing reports

Applies to: Costing Standard on TBM Studio 12.3.3 and later

AWS offers several sources of billing data, each with its own characteristics and uses. For more detail, see Understanding Your Usage with Billing Reports - AWS Billing and Cost Management.

While Apptio supports data from a large variety of sources, we offer purpose-built integrations around a subset of AWS billing reports. Currently, Apptio has built integrations with the following billing reports:

• Cost Allocation Report - This monthly-grain bill from AWS includes all of the billing details (AWS product, usage quantity, cost, etc.) as well as tags selected to be included in the bills. Apptio leverages the Cost Allocation Report to drive monthly TCO reporting for public cloud.
• Detailed Billing Report with Resources and Tags - This hourly-grain bill from AWS is similar to the Cost Allocation Report, and includes both billing details and tags. Apptio leverages the Detailed Billing Report with Resources and Tags to drive the Daily Costs reporting in Cloud Cost Management, which you can use to see month-to-date costs as of the current day, as well as the daily and hourly trending of AWS costs.

The Detailed Billing Report with Resources and Tags bill can become excessively large (100M+ rows per month) because it combines hourly detail with the inherent detail of AWS billing. As your organizational AWS spend increases, the size of this bill might become too large to bring into Apptio as a native .csv file.

Beginning with Apptio's 12.3.3 release and Datalink (Classic), you will see a new AWS connector automatic transform option that allows you to ingest the Detailed Billing Report with Resources and Tags bill in a new format on which the Daily Costs reporting is built. This new format, while serving as the foundation for the daily reports in Cloud Cost Management, is not currently available for transforms or modeling in TBM Studio. The Cost Allocation report is still the source for monthly billing.