Connect your data for cloud usage report enrichment

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 input folder.
• Write the enriched file back to the output folder.

Columns to include

Send the full export as your provider produces it, the same complete set described in Getting your cloud usage data. There is no need to trim columns down.

Greenpixie does not need any cost or spend data on any cloud provider, so you can remove those columns before sharing.

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 Greenpixie directory structure already partitions by <platform>, so each cloud's data is in its own folder within the same bucket.

Greenpixie can read from and write to any of the three clouds, in any combination, so consolidating into one location is optional. 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.

Platform guides

Next steps

Once the connection is live, Greenpixie reads from input, enriches, and writes the result to output.