AWS Control Tower
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AWS Control Tower
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Re: AWS Control Tower
#2I'd love it if at a glance I could see all of the AWS resources that I am using that cost me money, across all the regions.
Right now I feel like I would have to poke into every menu option in every region across the entire set of AWS services to find out exactly what I'm using.
The cynic in me wonders if this is not a priority for AWS because they make so much money from forgotten and hard to find resources that are being used and paid for but essentially lost in the interface.
When I saw the new product name I thought "maybe this is it!"
Re: AWS Control Tower
#3I'd love it if at a glance I could see all of the AWS resources that I am using that cost me money, across all the regions. Right now I feel like I would have to poke into every menu option in every region across the entire set of AWS services to find out exactly what I'm using. The cynic in me wonders if this is not a priority for AWS because they make so much money from forgotten and hard to find resources that are…
Does the billing dashboard not cover your needs? With their billing query UI you can slice your billing data by region, service, etc.
Re: AWS Control Tower
#4I'd love it if at a glance I could see all of the AWS resources that I am using that cost me money, across all the regions. Right now I feel like I would have to poke into every menu option in every region across the entire set of AWS services to find out exactly what I'm using. The cynic in me wonders if this is not a priority for AWS because they make so much money from forgotten and hard to find resources that are…
Does the billing dashboard not cover your needs? With their billing query UI you can slice your billing data by region, service, etc.
The billing API tells you about resources that have charged you, whereas I think the parent comment is talking about resources that are either “active” in some sense where they will charge you at some point in the future for the usage you’re accruing (but where this usage isn’t metered in a way visible to the billing API until it “commits” somehow); or, worse, resources which are “exposed” in some sense where they could charge you if they received a request, but happen to not have received any yet. (These resources are very easy to lose track of.)
Another way to think of this question is “what is my current exploitable attack surface, against the ‘attack’ of causing AWS to charge me lots of money?”
Re: AWS Control Tower
#5I'd love it if at a glance I could see all of the AWS resources that I am using that cost me money, across all the regions. Right now I feel like I would have to poke into every menu option in every region across the entire set of AWS services to find out exactly what I'm using. The cynic in me wonders if this is not a priority for AWS because they make so much money from forgotten and hard to find resources that are…
Does the billing dashboard not cover your needs? With their billing query UI you can slice your billing data by region, service, etc.
and by Tag, which is the most useful way to organize your resources for internal billing/analysis.
Don't see any missing functionality but our use case may not be complex enough.
Re: AWS Control Tower
#6This looks like a public facing version of a tool that AWS uses internally, which is great. Super easy tool to setup and govern AWS accounts, and also access the accounts to which you have access. I always wondered why they didn't sell it to their customers but I guess now they will!
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#7AWS is pushing Organizations/Accounts as something like GCP's Projects and it mostly works, cross account iam works pretty good, so does many other services but sadly this is not reflected in the support subscriptions.
You want help with a problem in your staging account? pay for support, fair enough. You want help with your production? oh sorry, you have to pay again.
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#8I'd love it if at a glance I could see all of the AWS resources that I am using that cost me money, across all the regions. Right now I feel like I would have to poke into every menu option in every region across the entire set of AWS services to find out exactly what I'm using. The cynic in me wonders if this is not a priority for AWS because they make so much money from forgotten and hard to find resources that are…
You can also check out https://divvycloud.com/, which is similar and supports a few other clouds.
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#9I'd love it if at a glance I could see all of the AWS resources that I am using that cost me money, across all the regions. Right now I feel like I would have to poke into every menu option in every region across the entire set of AWS services to find out exactly what I'm using. The cynic in me wonders if this is not a priority for AWS because they make so much money from forgotten and hard to find resources that are…
It’s not in Amazon’s interest to make billing easy to understand
Re: AWS Control Tower
#10AWS is pushing Organizations/Accounts as something like GCP's Projects and it mostly works, cross account iam works pretty good, so does many other services but sadly this is not reflected in the support subscriptions. You want help with a problem in your staging account? pay for support, fair enough. You want help with your production? oh sorry, you have to pay again.
>You want help with a problem in your staging account? pay for support, you want help with your production? oh sorry, you have to pay again.
In a sense this is a good thing since support is percentage based and you may want a higher level for support for production than staging.