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I'm sure there was a purpose for how the AWS console was originally built, but if someone spent this much time for an alternative, there's a clear problem in its original conception.
I expeced an alternative to the AWS console, but got a monitoring dashboard. Didn't seem like I could do much with it besides looking at my resources.
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The provided CloudFormation stack creates a Cross Account IAM Role with a list of read only permissions. We don't accept access keys or secrets. - A permissions overview is here (most aren't used for now). This list was made from the AWS-managed IAM policy of "ReadOnlyAccess" but whittled down to remove things like our ability to read from S3 Buckets or Databases: https://docs.vantage.sh/permissions/ - The latest Clo…
I'm so refreshed to see this designed this way. I assumed that they would be asking for an API key or equivalent, because I don't know anything about the product team or the company and this bad behavior is so bog-standard. I beg you to blog heavily about this approach, especially if you find success with it / it doesn't provide a very negative user experience. See if you can get featured on enterpriseready.io or som…
Security is a top concern of ours and this was really the only option for what we are doing.
Although this is a nice little simplified view into your AWS account I think calling it an "alternative AWS console" is misleading because you can't actually do anything with it, use it to make changes, etc.
That being said - we are slowly adding management actions and I do believe we will be compatible with a number of AWS services in due time. For example, you can manage Route 53 record sets directly from Vantage. We wrote a post up on it here: https://medium.com/@bensign/raising-the-bar-for-the-route53-...
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If you have over $500 per month of AWS spend, you are still free to use the product (no credit card required to get started) and everything will work but certain features will be restricted. For example, cost transparency reports will require an upgrade to use for spend over $500 per month. The specifics are detailed on our pricing page here: https://vantage.sh/pricing We are taking a look at what it would take to of…
Makes a lot of sense. Theres an interesting item I noticed: -You limit based on spend -You don't support all AWS Services -As a result you don't see all of our spend -Which means you actually limit based on spend of supported services? (I think?)
It also aligns our incentives with insuring we do as good a job as possible with appropriately representing your costs :)
I was a bit whelmed when I used it. I expeced an alternative to the AWS console, but got a monitoring dashboard. Didn't seem like I could do much with it besides looking at my resources.
Would be nice to put something like this up behind our own VPN auth etc
Any thoughts on a self hosted version? (I didn't look too closely at all the marketing stuff if this is already addressed) Would be nice to put something like this up behind our own VPN auth etc
It isn't something we're going to get done in the near term but if you'd like to discuss, I'd be happy to chat about it. Feel free to email me at ben@vantage.sh
I was a bit whelmed when I used it. I expeced an alternative to the AWS console, but got a monitoring dashboard. Didn't seem like I could do much with it besides looking at my resources.
Out of curiosity - what else would you like to do? We're always open to feedback. The only write actions we have are around Route 53 detailed here but we're adding more soon: https://medium.com/@bensign/raising-the-bar-for-the-route53-...
I mean, that isn't bad, it's probably doing a good job at that. But I guess, I simply expected more interactivity from an AWS console replacement, haha
Congratulations on the launch. The cost estimation feature is awesome - very useful for people like me who are not very good at cleaning up resources. Also like the cross-region view without having to switch console regions. This looks promising - good luck!