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Re: AWS Control Tower

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Post by andrewstuart »

iaresee wrote: post #3
andrewstuart wrote: post #2

I'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.

Yes that's retrospective, I'd like to see everything in use now that costs money, with links to direct manage those resources.

Re: AWS Control Tower

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Post by dstroot »

andrewstuart wrote: post #2

I'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…

I had a key compromise. They spun up resources across the world. I had to go on a safari to hunt and kill all the things they created in each region. I would’ve loved to of had a single view to see all the resources running across all regions. That would’ve been super helpful.

Re: AWS Control Tower

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Post by omeid2 »

marcinzm wrote: post #10
omeid2 wrote: post #7

AWS 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.

You should have the option to pay for the aggregate and get support across all the accounts, it only makes sense, really.

Re: AWS Control Tower

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Post by wayne_skylar »

Sorry but I've never felt that Amazon is completely operating in good faith with regards to allowing users to manage their costs. The proof of that is the fact that they still don't have a page where you can see the price of an ec2 instance alongside its stats. I've been wanting to see that for ten years and they still haven't added it.

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Post by joemag »

wayne_skylar wrote: post #14

Sorry but I've never felt that Amazon is completely operating in good faith with regards to allowing users to manage their costs. The proof of that is the fact that they still don't have a page where you can see the price of an ec2 instance alongside its stats. I've been wanting to see that for ten years and they still haven't added it.

EC2 engineer here.

Pricing is definitely a hard topic, and we can do more to make it easier. However, with regards to your second comment, are you looking for something more than this page [1]

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/

Re: AWS Control Tower

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Post by rukenshia »

I love that AWS is starting to care more about providing these services. For context, we have basically been building this for 2 years in our company internally to provide hundreds of “compliant by default” accounts. Every company seems to do it themselves.

What I personally find very frustrating is the lack of being able to migrate any existing organisations into this. I’d love to get rid of some of our account provisioning but this would basically mean starting over with a brand-new AWS Organization which is impossible for us.

It still is quite a hassle to manage many accounts (and resources you need in them) so I hope this service will sooner or later help us with this.

PS: if anyone is over at re:Inforce and wants to talk about anything AWS Orgs & accounts, feel free to mail me (profile)!

Re: AWS Control Tower

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Post by kiwicopple »

andrewstuart wrote: post #2

I'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…

I’ve been using komiser.io for this. I saw it here on Show HN about a month ago and have been using it ever since

Re: AWS Control Tower

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Post by pwarner »

andrewstuart wrote: post #2

I'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…

3rd party services offer this for sure - https://www.cloudhealthtech.com/ - https://cloudcheckr.com/

And several others.

Re: AWS Control Tower

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Post by pwarner »

joemag wrote: post #15
wayne_skylar wrote: post #14

Sorry but I've never felt that Amazon is completely operating in good faith with regards to allowing users to manage their costs. The proof of that is the fact that they still don't have a page where you can see the price of an ec2 instance alongside its stats. I've been wanting to see that for ten years and they still haven't added it.

EC2 engineer here. Pricing is definitely a hard topic, and we can do more to make it easier. However, with regards to your second comment, are you looking for something more than this page [1] [1] https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/

Of course there is https://www.ec2instances.info/ or if you are into Azure then https://azureprice.net/

Re: AWS Control Tower

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Post by [deleted] »

omeid2 wrote: post #13
marcinzm wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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.

You should have the option to pay for the aggregate and get support across all the accounts, it only makes sense, really.

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