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title: Automate Cloud Cost Intelligence with AWS CloudFormation
source: https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/cci/get-started/aws/automated-setup-cloudformation
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Use the automated AWS CloudFormation template to accelerate your **Cloud Cost Intelligence** setup. The pre-configured stack automatically provisions the required AWS environment, including S3 bucket configuration, CUR export settings, [Trusted Advisor settings check](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/cci/financial-intelligence/cci-recommendations/#aws-trusted-advisor), and necessary IAM roles and policies. Review all resource permissions in the AWS CloudFormation console before deploying.

## Cost considerations

The template automatically creates an S3 bucket for CUR data ingestion. The default region is `us-east-2`, but you can change this using the CloudFormation parameters to match your infrastructure needs.

## Setup instructions

### Access Cloud Cost Intelligence in New Relic

Navigate to [**one.newrelic.com**](https://one.newrelic.com/) **Integrations & Agents** **Cloud Cost Intelligence - AWS**.

### Choose CloudFormation automation

Select **Automate AWS with CloudFormation (Recommended)** and click **Continue**.

### Launch CloudFormation in AWS

1.  Confirm your connection name and select your New Relic data region.
2.  Click **Launch your CloudFormation in AWS**.
3.  Log in to your AWS account with **Admin role** when prompted. The **CloudFormation Stacks** screen opens in the AWS console.

### Configure stack parameters

In the **Create Stack** form, configure the following parameters:

**Pre-populated parameters (do not modify):**

-   **New Relic Account ID**: Pre-populated. Do not change.
-   **New Relic Data Region**: Pre-populated. Do not change.
-   **External ID**: Pre-populated. Do not change.

**Required parameters:**

-   **NewRelicAPIKey**: Enter your New Relic API key. Generate this in the New Relic UI: User menu > API Keys.
-   **Stack Name**: Default value provided. Edit if needed, but ensure the name is globally unique across all AWS CloudFormation stacks. We recommend keeping the default value.
-   **Bucket Name**: Default value provided. Edit if needed, but ensure the name is globally unique across all S3 buckets.
-   **Connection Name**: Default value provided. Edit if needed for your naming conventions.

**Optional parameters:**

-   **Grant Access to Trusted Advisor**: Defaults to **Yes**. When enabled, allows checking if **Trusted Advisor** cost insights is enabled for your account and retrieves recommendations. If you choose **No** or **Trusted Advisor** is not enabled, **Trusted Advisor** recommendations will not be available.

    > #### ⚠️ IMPORTANT
    >
    > **CCI** Native Recommendations are independent of **Trusted Advisor** and will work regardless of this setting.

    All other parameters are optional and can be configured as needed.

### Create the stack

Select **I acknowledge that AWS CloudFormation might create IAM resources** and click **Create stack**.

### Verify stack creation

When the stack creation completes successfully, the status displays **CREATE_COMPLETE**.

### Verify CUR report generation

Wait 24 hours, then verify that a CUR report in parquet format appears in your AWS bucket.

> #### ⚠️ IMPORTANT
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> The path below is an example. Your actual path will have different timestamps, UUIDs, and billing periods.
>
> **Amazon S3** > **Buckets** > **bucket_name** > **cost-and-usage-reports/** > **bucket_name-cci/data** > **BILLING_PERIOD=2025-12/** > **2025-12-24T03:05:19.886Z-a2e23b2a-588a-4305-97fd-be712f555b75/** > **bucket_name-cci-00001.snappy.parquet**

Your integration setup is complete.

## Limitations

The automated **CloudFormation** template does not:

-   Create or configure any compute or network resources.
-   Enable any additional AWS service or update the support level.
-   Automate the process of ingesting Logs, Traces and any other metrics.
-   Create any write access roles or policies.

## Configured policies and permissions

The automated stack configures the following access levels:

-   **Billing Data Access**: Read-only permission to the specific S3 bucket created for storing Cost and Usage Reports.
-   **Service Pricing Access**: Read-only access to the AWS Pricing API to correlate your usage with public rates.
-   **Configuration Automation**: Limited permissions required to generate the CUR exports and verify the integration status during the setup phase.
-   **Optional Optimization Access**: (If selected) Read-only access to AWS Trusted Advisor to surface cost-saving recommendations.

[Overview of Cloud Cost Intelligence - AWS](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/cci/get-started/aws/aws-cci)

[Automate AWS with CloudFormation](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/cci/get-started/aws/automated-setup-cloudformation)

[Manually integrate your AWS account](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/cci/get-started/aws/manual-integrate-aws-account)