# Setting Up Cost Reports Manually
OneLens prefers the IAM role and CUR bucket to be created in us-east-1 region if you have multiple regions active. However if you wish to setup the Role and CUR bucket in a specific region, this document will guide you with the setup process.
Its is a two step process:
1. [Setting up the CUR 2.0 report](#setting-up-the-cur-2.0-report)
2. [Creating IAM role for access](#creating-iam-role-for-access)
## Setting up the CUR 2.0 report
Billing service is a global service, which internally served by AWS in `us-east-1` region. We will configure the export via this global service to deliver reports in the S3 bucket created in choice of your region
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### Initiate Data export
Go to Billing Service and click on[ Data Export](https://us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com/costmanagement/home?region=ap-south-1#/bcm-data-exports).
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### Create new report
Click on the `Create` button. Provide the Export Name as `OneLens-Standard-CUR-Export` and data export type should be the default, i.e. Standard Data Export.
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### Configure Table content setting
Select
1. Select report format as `CUR 2.0`
2. In addiotional settings, select both the check boxes
1. Include Resource Id
2. Split Cost Allocation Data
You should see the selection of 125 Columns
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Configure Storage Settings and Finalize
Configure the S3 setting as per your need. In below screenshots we you see we selected \`ap-south-1\`as preferred region
Provide the Bucket Name and the region in which you want the bucket to be created
Provide the CUR Path as `cur` and hit the Create Button
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> Note - AWS will take 24-48 Hours to generate the first report.
## Creating IAM role for access
Once the S3 bucket is configured, lets create the IAM Role in the same region where you created the CUR bucket
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### Create Cloudformation Stack
Go to CFT Service and upload the Stack. You can find the yml file below
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### Specify Stack Details
Provide the details as
1. Stack Name - `onelens-cur-role-stack`
2. Role Name - get the unique ID from OneLens Team for your Account.
3. S3 Bucket Name - your S3 bucket name created in previous step
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### Configure Stack Options
Click on Next and provide Tags as per your company norms (optional)
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### Review and create
Acknowledge that you are creating an IAM Role and create the role
Click on `Next` and then `Submit`
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After successful execution, please share the following details with OneLens team
* Your Account ID in which you have run the Stack
* S3 CUR Bucket Name
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