Log in to the AWS Billing and Cost Management Console.

From the left menu, select Reports.

Verify that a Cost and Usage Report has been created using an Hourly interval.

In the AWS Console, select Services > S3.

Select the S3 bucket that stores the hourly CUR data.

Within the bucket, locate the hourly CUR .csv file and download it.

Open a terminal session and move to the directory where the CUR .csv is saved.

Run this command to break down the CSV data in your terminal: Tail -n 2000 <filename>.csv This command outputs the last 2000 entries of your CSV file in your terminal.

The beginning of each output should have the following syntax:

<instanceID>, <time interval>

Example: 2m7a5gvrrilqmkhwf5fxgfgd3ao2knj584672dzhmczoya,2017-03-06T06:00:00Z/2017-03-06T07:00:00Z

Review outputs to verify that the Time Interval is progressing instead of showing T00:00:00 for all entries. If you see this behavior, you are using your Daily CUR data instead of Hourly Data.