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. You have two options to choose either New CUR setup or Use existing CUR setup.

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

Setup CloudFormation using default configuration.

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

1. Select Default configuration.

1. Click Open AWS Create Stack Page.

1. Clicking the button above will take you to your CloudFormation console.

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

1. Once you're done, go back to Octo and click Check and Confirm to start the verification process.

1. If the verification is successful, you'll have the option to add a sub-account. You can either add and click Check and Confirm again to finish, or simply skip the sub-account step.

Setup target S3 bucket in a different region.

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

1. Select Target S3 bucket in a different region.

1. Under S3 Bucket, click Open AWS Create Stack Page.

2. Clicking the button above will take you to your CloudFormation console.

3. Under CUR, click Open AWS Create Stack Page.

4. Clicking the button above will take you to your CloudFormation console.

1. Provide a stack name.(You can retain the value or input your desired stack name.) Then set the CurS3BucketOption parameter to USE_EXISTING, then set your CurS3BucketName and CurS3BucketRegion accordingly.

1. Once done, come back to this page and click Check and Confirm to start the verification process.

1. After that, you have an option to add a sub account, you can click the Open AWS Create Stack Page and then click the Check and Confirm button to finish.

If you prefer not to add a sub-account, simply click Skip and finish.

Setting up the CUR and S3 bucket using existing CUR setup:

1. Click Open AWS Create Stack Page.

1. Clicking the button above will take you to your CloudFormation console.

2. Provide a stack name.(You can retain the value or input your desired stack name.) Then set your CurS3BucketName and CurS3BucketRegion accordingly to create stack. Note, do not change the Principal.

1. Once done, come back to this page and click Check and Confirm to start the verification process.

1. After that, you have an option to add a sub account, you can click the Open AWS Create Stack Page and then click the Check and Confirm button to finish.

If you prefer not to add a sub-account, simply click Skip and finish.