AWS Cost and Usage Report (Legacy CUR 1.0) AWS Billing and Cost Management Data Exports (CUR 2.0)
Automated billing, cost management, FOCUS, and carbon emissions data export service with SQL column selection, row filtering, and consistent schemas delivered to Amazon S3.
Naming timeline
- AWS Cost and Usage Report (Legacy CUR 1.0)
Launched on December 17, 2015 on the cur API to deliver granular hourly or daily CSV/Parquet billing reports to Amazon S3.
- AWS Billing and Cost Management Data Exports (CUR 2.0)Current name
Launched on November 26, 2023 on the bcm-data-exports API as the recommended successor to Legacy CUR 1.0, adding SQL queries, fixed schemas, CUR 2.0, FOCUS, and carbon footprint exports.
What is AWS Cost and Usage Report (Legacy CUR 1.0) called now?
AWS Cost and Usage Report (Legacy CUR 1.0) is now called AWS Billing and Cost Management Data Exports (CUR 2.0), with the latest change on 26 November 2023 (AWS re:Invent 2023). Automated billing, cost management, FOCUS, and carbon emissions data export service with SQL column selection, row filtering, and consistent schemas delivered to Amazon S3. Only the customer-facing name changed; the underlying technical identifiers remain backward compatible.
Also known as
- CUR 2.0
- Cost and Usage Report 2.0
- AWS Cost and Usage Reports
- AWS CUR
Technical identifiers
Technical identifiers unchanged. Only the customer-facing product name changed; the APIs, CLI commands, IAM roles and Terraform resources below keep their legacy identifiers for backward compatibility.
| AWS Service APIs / SDKs | bcm-data-exports cur |
|---|---|
| AWS CLI Commands | aws bcm-data-exports aws cur |
| IAM Actions & Policies | bcm-data-exports:* cur:* |
| Terraform Resources (aws_*) | aws_bcmdataexports_export aws_cur_report_definition |
CUR 2.0 and FOCUS exports are managed via the bcm-data-exports API and aws_bcmdataexports_export Terraform resource, while Legacy CUR 1.0 definitions remain supported via the cur API and aws_cur_report_definition.
Notes & disambiguation
- Launched on November 26, 2023 at AWS re:Invent 2023, AWS Data Exports introduces Cost and Usage Report 2.0 (CUR 2.0), which replaces dynamic-column Legacy CUR 1.0 reports with a fixed schema, SQL-based column selection and row filtering, nested JSON map columns, and payer/usage account name columns.
- Data Exports uses the new bcm-data-exports API namespace (aws bcm-data-exports, bcm-data-exports:*, aws_bcmdataexports_export), whereas Legacy CUR 1.0 exports continue to use the cur API namespace (aws cur, cur:*, aws_cur_report_definition).
- Data Exports also consolidates exports for FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS 1.0 and 1.2), Cost Optimization Hub recommendations, Carbon emissions, and the QuickSight Cost and Usage Dashboard.
Sources & official documentation
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