AWS has updated AWS Data Exports, its service for generating and managing cost and usage Reports (CURs), to include standardized Amazon Bedrock product metadata, making it easier for enterprise engineering teams to analyze AI usage and spending as they scale AI deployments spanning multiple foundation models.

The update extends billing exports with normalized fields for model provider, model name, inference type, inference mode, billing unit and Bedrock product family, and will enable enterprises to identify which models generated costs and compare spending across providers without relying on custom parsing or normalization of billing records, AWS wrote in a blog post.

That reduced reliance on custom parsing will reduce the engineering effort required to analyze billing data, analysts said.

“Before the update, a data engineer would typically need to maintain a model ID registry, write regex against usage type strings, or join AWS CloudTrail with CUR to figure out which provider generated which cost,” said Bhupendra Chopra, chief revenue officer at IT consulting firm Kanerika.

The new standardized fields “can be the difference between a billing pipeline that needs constant babysitting and one that doesn’t,” Chopra added.