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CUR and S3 Bucket Setup for Payer Accounts

To pull your AWS data to Octo, there is a need to setup the CUR and S3 bucket for payer accounts.

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

During new account registration

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

During update of account settings.

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

Two deployment ways when setting up the CUR and S3 bucket:

Setup CloudFormation using default configuration.

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

Default Region

  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.

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

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

Setup target S3 bucket in a different region.

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

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

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