ukhomeoffice / coe-infrastructure-costexplorer

# Intro

AWS cost explorer is now accessible via cli.

Pre-condition

enable access to ce service

{
		"Version": "2012-10-17",
		"Statement": [
{
  "Effect": "Allow",
  "Action": [
    "ce:*"
  ],
  "Resource": [
    "*"
  ]
}
	]
}

CLI example

example 1 : total

$ aws ce  --profile <profile name>  --region=us-east-1 get-cost-and-usage --time-period file://dates.json --granularity MONTHLY --metrics BlendedCost

example 2 : per account

$ aws ce  --profile <profilename>  --region=us-east-1 get-cost-and-usage --time-period file://date.json --granularity MONTHLY --metrics UnblendedCost --group-by file://filter.jso

json files

groupby.json

[	
	{
	"Type": "DIMENSION",
	 "Key": "LINKED_ACCOUNT"
	}
]

date.json

{
"Start": "2018-02-16",
 "End": "2018-02-17"
}

filter.json

{
	"Dimensions": {
		"Key": "LINKED_ACCOUNT",
		"Values": ["<AccNo>", "<AccNo>","<AccNo>"]
	}
}

More info

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ce/index.html#cli-aws-ce