Connect your data for cloud usage report enrichment
How to give Greenpixie access to enrich your usage data.
Once you have your cloud usage data exported to storage you own, following Getting your cloud usage data, the next step is to connect it.
This guide applies if you have Greenpixie's managed cloud usage report enrichment service enabled. If you are enriching your own data through the API instead, you do not need to connect anything. See Getting started with the Greenpixie API.
What Greenpixie needs access to
Greenpixie reads and writes within the storage you own. Specifically, Greenpixie needs to:
- Read the raw usage data you export to the
inputfolder. - Write the enriched file back to the
outputfolder.
The data stays in your environment throughout. Greenpixie reads from input, enriches, and writes to output.
A note on the files
Send the full export as your provider produces it, the same complete set described in the export guide. There is no need to trim columns down.
Greenpixie does not need any cost or spend data, so feel free to remove those columns before sharing if you prefer. This applies across all cloud providers.
Multi-cloud setups
If your estate spans more than one cloud, we recommend consolidating everything into a single storage location, for example all three clouds' data in one S3 bucket. The required directory structure already partitions by <platform>, so each cloud's data sits in its own folder within the same bucket.
This is a recommendation, not a requirement. Greenpixie can read from and write to any of the three providers, in any combination. Input and output do not need to be on the same platform. You could deliver your data in Azure Blob Storage and have Greenpixie write the enriched output to Google Cloud Storage, for example.