Activate cost allocation tags and check on the status of them programatically

cost-monitoring.md

Activate AWS Tags in Cost Explorer

CLI

aws ce update-cost-allocation-tags-status —cost-allocation-tags-status="TagKey='parallelcluster:cluster-name',Status='activate'"
aws ce list-cost-allocation-tags --tag-keys='parallelcluster:cluster-name'
{
    "CostAllocationTags": [
        {
            "TagKey": "parallelcluster:cluster-name",
            "Type": "UserDefined",
            "Status": "Active"
        }
    ]
}

Python

#!/usr/bin/python3
import boto3

PCLUSTER_COST_TAGS = ['parallelcluster:attributes', 
    'parallelcluster:cluster-name', 'parallelcluster:compute-resource-name', 'parallelcluster:filesystem', 
    'parallelcluster:networking', 'parallelcluster:node-type', 'parallelcluster:queue-name', 
    'parallelcluster:resource', 'parallelcluster:version']
    
def check_tags():
    cost_explorer = boto3.client('ce')
    inactive_tags = cost_explorer.list_cost_allocation_tags(Status='Inactive',TagKeys=PCLUSTER_COST_TAGS)
    try:
        return {'TagStatus': not (len(inactive_tags['CostAllocationTags']) > 0)}
    except Exception as e:
        return {"message": str(e)}, 500

def activate_tags():
    try:
        cost_explorer = boto3.client('ce')
        newlist = [{'TagKey': tag, 'Status': 'Active'} for tag in PCLUSTER_COST_TAGS]
        cost_explorer.update_cost_allocation_tags_status(CostAllocationTagsStatus=newlist)
        return {"message": "Activated Tags"}
    except Exception as e:
        return {"message": str(e)}, 500