Finout provides you with a simple way to manage long-term storage of cost data.

You can configure Finout to archive data in an AWS S3 bucket that you own — allowing you to store cloud spending data from your company’s various cost centers in one structured, easily accessible format.

Setting Up Cost Archiver

To output the cost data, Finout requires write permissions to an S3 bucket. For this purpose, please either create a new bucket or a new folder within the existing S3 bucket that’s used for your AWS CUR files.

Bucket permissions

Note: If there are currently no policies applied to the bucket, please use the following policy:

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Principal": {
        "AWS": "{FinoutRole}"
      },
      "Action": [
        "s3:GetObject",
        "s3:PutObject",
        "s3:PutObjectAcl",
        "s3:ListMultipartUploadParts"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::{DestinationBucketName}/*"
    }
  ]
}

Note: If there are already statements in the bucket’s policy, please add the following to the statements array:

{
  "Effect": "Allow",
  "Principal": {
    "AWS": "{FinoutRole}"
  },
  "Action": [
    "s3:GetObject",
    "s3:PutObject",
    "s3:PutObjectAcl",
    "s3:ListMultipartUploadParts"
  ],
  "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::{DestinationBucketName}/*"
}

Note: If you wish to limit the write permissions to a specific folder within the bucket, please update the resource portion as follows:

"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::{DestinationBucketName}/{SomeFolder}/*"

Archived cost data

Cost data will be updated once a day in the following structure: bucket/archiver_name/v1/yyyymmdd.json.gz

Cost data can be added retroactively by request, and there is no limitation in terms of the archived data size.

Cost data structure

Field name	type	Description
time	Date (YYYY-MM-DDT00:00:00.000Z)	ㅤ
service	String	The type of service the cost is related to, for example, “EC2” (in AWS) or “Compute Engine” (in GCP)
region	String	The region the cost is associated with
cost_center_type	String	AWS / GCP / K8s / Snowflake
costs	dict<string, double>	all the following costs: amortized_cost, net_amortized_cost, blended_cost, unblended_cost, net_unblended_cost, uncovered_cost, reservation_cost, savings_plan_cost, spot_cost
metadata	dict<string, string>	All metadata relevant to this cost line

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