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Its been about 18 months since I was at an AWS-heavy shop. We used Netflix Ice (open source) to do cost reporting. We also heavily leaned on resource tagging to
by gregatragenet3 10y ago
Its been about 18 months since I was at an AWS-heavy shop. We used Netflix Ice (open source) to do cost reporting. We also heavily leaned on resource tagging to be able to report on segmentation - what teams were using resources, if it was dev, test, or prod etc. Tagging was crucial to managing costs for medium/large organizations and we spent a lot of time ensuring everyone was tagging their resources properly. I also made a one-liner change to Ice so that it would group untagged resources together so we could do reporting on how well we were tagging resources.
- idunno246 10y agoWe tried ice but it felt it was clunky. Someone suggested just dump the detailed billing report with tags into tableau(or quicksite/Athena/etc) and graph the things you care about there, which worked well and we could apply transforms to the data easily. Also explored using config rules to enforce the tagging requirements. Tagging is really key to tracking this. We tested some of the third parties, and felt the only value was the ri adjusters, which we were able to work around