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AWS cur documentation change

Service: cur · 2025-04-25 · Documentation medium

File: cur/latest/userguide/dataexports-create-standard.md

Summary

Added carbon emissions requirements, IAM permissions note, and refresh cadence details

Security assessment

Documents required IAM permission 'sustainability:GetCarbonFootprintSummary' for carbon data access, enhancing security documentation

Diff

diff --git a/cur/latest/userguide/dataexports-create-standard.md b/cur/latest/userguide/dataexports-create-standard.md
index 15e798044..f1d88e562 100644
--- a//cur/latest/userguide/dataexports-create-standard.md
+++ b//cur/latest/userguide/dataexports-create-standard.md
@@ -11 +11 @@ You can create a standard data export that you can analyze using other processin
-  1. Sign in to the AWS Billing and Cost Management console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/costmanagement/home#](http://console.aws.amazon.com/costmanagement).
+  1. Open the Billing and Cost Management console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/costmanagement/](https://console.aws.amazon.com/costmanagement/).
@@ -27 +27 @@ Export names can have up to 128 characters and must be unique. Valid characters
-An export of the Cost Optimization Recommendations table requires a service-linked role. For more information, see [Service-linked roles for Data Exports](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/latest/userguide/data-exports-SLR.html).
+Exporting the Cost optimization recommendations table requires a service-linked role. For more information, see [Service-linked roles for Data Exports](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/latest/userguide/data-exports-SLR.html).
@@ -29 +29,3 @@ An export of the Cost Optimization Recommendations table requires a service-link
-With the exception of FOCUS 1.0 with AWS columns, there are different table configurations to add data to your export.
+Exporting the Carbon emissions table requires the IAM permission `sustainability:GetCarbonFootprintSummary` to access the Customer Carbon Footprint Tool and data.
+
+With the exception of FOCUS 1.0 with AWS columns and Carbon emissions, there are different table configurations to add data to your export.
@@ -55 +57,3 @@ This option only appears if you are on the discount automation program.
-    3. For **Cost optimization recommendations** :
+    3. For **Carbon emissions** , there are no table configurations.
+
+    4. For **Cost optimization recommendations** :
@@ -67 +71,5 @@ If you specified these settings in the Cost Optimization Hub console, they will
-  8. Under **Data table delivery options** , for **Data export refresh cadence** , the only option available is **Daily - refresh at least once per day**.
+  8. Under **Data table delivery options** , for **Data export refresh cadence** : .
+
+     * For billing and cost management data exports, the only option available is **Daily - export is refreshed up to one time per day**.
+
+     * For carbon emissions data exports, the only option available is **Monthly \- export is refreshed once per month**. Each update provides the carbon emissions data from three months ago (for example, an April update contains January data).