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This feels like a strange and expensive way to solve this problem. 1. Why do you need a graph database? You could almost certainly keep the entire thing in mem
by staticassertion 6y ago
This feels like a strange and expensive way to solve this problem.
1. Why do you need a graph database? You could almost certainly keep the entire thing in memory, who has >16GB of infrastructure?
2. 500+ dollars a month for a service that I'll use very infrequently?
3. I feel like all I actually want is something that takes CloudFormation and gives me a picture, for free, in a python script on my laptop. But ok, fine, what about things not in CF, and other metadata sure, but then see (1) and (2).
If this were, say, one dollar a month (or serverless) and the infrastructure was totally abstracted away I'd be a lot more excited.
edit: OK so (2) isn't really their fault, since this isn't an AWS service, but still. And 600 bucks isn't that bad for many companies, I just think there's a bit of a pricetag shock on this one.
- jcims 6y agoThe graph database is useful for external analysis of the relationships between your resources. I've built this in the past using just AWS Config and, while incredibly useful, it is extremely limited due to Config's very limited scope. If this covers a reasonable percentage of AWS services it would be more than cost justified at $1-2k/mo for our environment.
- staticassertion 6y agoYeah, thinking about it more I do feel that this is a justifiable cost.
- myroon5 6y ago> I feel like all I actually want is something that takes CloudFormation and gives me a picture, for free, in a python script on my laptop you might find this interesting then: https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/cfn-python-lint/pull/1411 https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/cfn-python-lint/pull/1... https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/aws-cfn-lint-visual-studio-code/pull/106 https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/aws-cfn-lint-visual-st...
- staticassertion 6y agoThank you, this looks like what I need.