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Changes to enterprise properties for AWS billing

Abiquo 6.0.0

Before you upgrade, add the amazon_bucket_region as an enterprise property with the AWS region code of your billing bucket location (for example, us-east-1)

Abiquo 6.1.0

Replace the price_factor enterprise property with the Abiquo price factors for Amazon. See Manage price factors

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Create an S3 bucket, for example, costandusagebillingreport
1. Within the bucket, create a folder where AWS will store your reports. Give it the name of your report, for example costandusagebillingreport
2. Note the billing bucket name, for example, costandusagebillingreport
Create a new user, such as programmaticbilling to create the reports
1. Assign the AmazonS3ReadOnlyAccess policy
2. Activate the IAM user's access to billing information. See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/control-access-billing.html
Configure Cost & Usage Reports
1. Go to Cost & Usage Reports
2. Enter the Report name, which you will need to enter in Abiquo later, then click Next
3. Click Configure and select the S3 bucket. Click Next, then select I have confirmed that this policy is correct.
4. By default, Amazon will put the reports in a folder with the name format /report-name/date-range/. Note this as the value for the amazon_bucket_prefix in Abiquo. Click Next
5. Review your configuration and check that the following parameters are set:
  1. bucket name
  2. path (folder/subfolder)
  3. time detail: Hourly
  4. GZ or ZIP format
The AWS account with credentials to use in Abiquo should have these permissions
Price list: Full access to All resources

S3

: Full list and read access to Multiple resources

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Configure dashboard display in Abiquo

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