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Setting up CUR and S3 Bucket for Payer Accounts
Setting up CUR and S3 Bucket for Payer Accounts
Updated over a year ago

This article explains about the procedure of how to register your AWS payer accounts to Octo.

There are 2 ways to setup the CUR and S3 bucket in Octo.

  1. During new account

    1. Provider Account -> Account Registration -> Register New Account -> Setup CUR and S3 Bucket (After Get API Access)

  2. During update of account settings.

    1. Provider Account -> Account Registration -> Select account from the list -> Action Dropdown button -> Setup CUR and S3 Bucket

Setting up CUR and S3 bucket also has 2 ways for deployment:

  1. Setup CloudFormation using default configuration.

    1. The CUR export settings and the target S3 bucket will be deployed to us-east-1 region.

  2. Setup target S3 bucket in a different region.

    1. S3 bucket is setup on a desired region aside from us-east-1 region.

Setup CloudFormation using default configuration.

  1. Select [Setup CloudFormation using default configuration].

  2. Click [Open AWS Launch Page].

  3. Clicking the link above will take you to your CloudFormation console.

    Please make sure that it is deployed on the default us-east-1 region.

  4. Once done, come back to this page and click [Confirm] to start the verification process.

Setup target S3 bucket in a different region.

  1. Select [Setup target S3 bucket in a different region].

  2. Under S3 Bucket, click [Open AWS Launch Page].

  3. Clicking the link above will take you to your CloudFormation console.

  4. Under CUR, click [Open AWS Launch Page].

  5. Clicking the link above will take you to your CloudFormation console.

  6. Set the CurS3BucketOption parameter to USE_EXISTING, then set your CurS3BucketName and CurS3BucketRegion accordingly.

    Please make sure that it is deployed on the us-east-1 region.

  7. Once done, come back to this page and click [Confirm] to start the verification process.

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