Amazon Billing And Cost Management · Example Payload

Get Cost And Usage Example

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Get Cost And Usage Example is an example object payload from Amazon Billing And Cost Management, with 2 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

requestresponse

Example Payload

{
  "request": {
    "method": "POST",
    "url": "https://ce.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/GetCostAndUsage",
    "headers": {
      "Content-Type": "application/x-amz-json-1.1",
      "X-Amz-Target": "AWSInsightsIndexService.GetCostAndUsage",
      "Authorization": "AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=..."
    },
    "body": {
      "TimePeriod": {
        "Start": "2026-01-01",
        "End": "2026-04-01"
      },
      "Granularity": "MONTHLY",
      "Metrics": ["UnblendedCost", "UsageQuantity"],
      "GroupBy": [
        { "Type": "DIMENSION", "Key": "SERVICE" }
      ],
      "Filter": {
        "Dimensions": {
          "Key": "LINKED_ACCOUNT",
          "Values": ["123456789012"]
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 200,
    "body": {
      "ResultsByTime": [
        {
          "TimePeriod": { "Start": "2026-01-01", "End": "2026-02-01" },
          "Total": {},
          "Groups": [
            {
              "Keys": ["Amazon EC2"],
              "Metrics": {
                "UnblendedCost": { "Amount": "1234.56", "Unit": "USD" },
                "UsageQuantity": { "Amount": "8760.00", "Unit": "Hrs" }
              }
            },
            {
              "Keys": ["Amazon S3"],
              "Metrics": {
                "UnblendedCost": { "Amount": "45.23", "Unit": "USD" },
                "UsageQuantity": { "Amount": "1024.00", "Unit": "GB" }
              }
            }
          ],
          "Estimated": false
        }
      ],
      "DimensionValueAttributes": []
    }
  }
}

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