AWS Well-Architected Labs > Cost Optimization > 300 Labs > Level 300: Organization Data CUR Connection

Level 300: Organization Data CUR Connection

Last Updated

December 2020

Authors

Stephanie Gooch, Commercial Architect (AWS)

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Introduction

This lab will show you how to combine your organizations information with your AWS Cost & Usage Report, this will enable you to view cost & usage in a way that is more relevant to your organization. It will guide you through the process of setting up an AWS Lambda function to extract the data from AWS Organizations, such as account ID and name, and place it into Amazon S3. From there, Amazon Athena will be able to read this data to produce a table that can be connected to your AWS Cost & Usage Report to enrich it.

Architecture

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Goals

Combine your AWS Organizations information with your CUR
Allows you to view costs against accounts with names you provide enriching the data

Prerequisites

Access to the management AWS Account of the AWS Organisation to deploy a cross account role
A sub account within the Organization
Completed the Account Setup Lab 100_1_AWS_Account_Setup
Completed the Cost and Usage Analysis lab 200_4_Cost_and_Usage_Analysis
Completed the Cost Visualization Lab 200_5_Cost_Visualization

Permissions required

Be able to create the below in the management account:

IAM role and policy

Be able to create the below in a sub account where your CUR data is accessible:

Amazon S3 Bucket
AWS Lambda function
IAM role and policy
Amazon CloudWatch trigger
Amazon Athena Table

Optional

Completed the Enterprise Dashboards lab 200_Enterprise_Dashboards

Costs

Estimated costs should be <$5 a month for small Organization
Amazon QuickSight pricing

Time to complete

30 minutes