**To create an AWS Cost and Usage Reports**

The following ``put-report-definition`` example creates a daily AWS Cost and Usage Report that you can upload into Amazon Redshift or Amazon QuickSight. ::

    aws cur put-report-definition --report-definition file://report-definition.json

Contents of ``report-definition.json``::

    {
        "ReportName": "ExampleReport",
        "TimeUnit": "DAILY",
        "Format": "textORcsv",
        "Compression": "ZIP",
        "AdditionalSchemaElements": [ 
            "RESOURCES"
        ],
        "S3Bucket": "example-s3-bucket",
        "S3Prefix": "exampleprefix",
        "S3Region": "us-east-1",
        "AdditionalArtifacts": [ 
            "REDSHIFT",
            "QUICKSIGHT"
        ]
    }