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Update Prerequisite instructions for correct AWS billing settings #11

Open jasonshah opened 11 years ago

jasonshah commented 11 years ago

The Prerequisite instructions imply that only Programmatic Access needs to be turned in AWS Billing Preferences. This is incorrect: Detailed Billing Report or Detailed Billing Report (with resources and tags) must be turned on also. If only Programmatic Access is turned on, the S3 bucket will be filled with files such as: xxxxxxxxxxxx-aws-billing-csv-2013-06.csv, which is not recognizable by ICE.

ralph-tice commented 11 years ago

The instructions say "First sign up for Amazon's programmatic billing access here to receive detailed billing(hourly) reports."

Detailed billing reports are labeled "Detailed Billing Report" and "Detailed Billing Report (with resources and tags)". What language would you propose instead?

jasonshah commented 11 years ago

"First sign up for a few AWS services under Billing Preferences.

  1. Programmatic Access. The S3 Bucket Name you enter here will be used later.
  2. Detailed Billing Report, or Detailed Billing Report (with resources and tags). After signing up for either of these, verify that you receive billing files in one of the following formats: -aws-billing-detailed-line-items--.csv.zip, or -aws-billing-detailed-line-items-with-resources-and-tags--.csv.zip."