AWS announces Invoice Configuration

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Invoice Configuration, which enables you to customize your invoicing experience to receive separate AWS invoices based on your organizational structure. This enables you to group AWS accounts according to your internal business entities such as legal entities, subsidiaries, cost centers etc. and receive separate AWS invoices for each of your business entities, within the same AWS Organization. A separate invoice per business entity enables you to track invoices separately, thus enabling faster processing of AWS Invoices by removing manual processes to split the AWS invoice on an entity level.

With Invoice Configuration, you can create Invoice Units, which are groups of member accounts, that best represent your business entities and then designate a member or management account as the receiver for the invoice of the business entity. You can optionally associate a purchase order by Invoice Unit and visualize charges by Invoice Units using Cost Categories in Cost explorer and Cost and Usage Report.

You can either use the Invoice Configuration through the AWS Billing and Cost management console or access it through the AWS SDKs or AWS CLI to programmatically create and manage Invoice Units.

Invoice Configuration is available in all public AWS Regions, excluding GovCloud (US) Regions and China (Beijing) and China (Ningxia) Regions. To learn more visit the product page, blog post, or review the User Guide and API Reference.