AWS offers the CUR files to report on spending. The quality of the data is way better than the old Detailed Billing Files and it come in different formats.
I use the CUR files to generate really good looking Dashboards with AWS QuickSight
Today for the first time I checked CUR formatted as Parquet files, and there is a problem for anyone trying to reuse code, while the data seems to be very much the same as in the CSV, the headers are different. My first observations:
- We have underscores added in the middle of words - bill/billingperiodstartdate (in CSV) becomes bill_ billing_period_start_date
- We have underscores added instead of / bill/billingperiodstartdate (in CSV) becomes bill _ billing_period_start_date
Come on, I want the same headers to create one and only one query into Athena that works with CSV and Parquet
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