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I wrote CloudPouch application because I needed simple solution to understand costs on multiple AWS accounts that I manage in my everyday work. Using CloudPouch
by pzubkiewicz 5y ago
I wrote CloudPouch application because I needed simple solution to understand costs on multiple AWS accounts that I manage in my everyday work. Using CloudPouch myself, I saved over 16,560 USD per month on a single AWS account!
CloudPouch:
- is a desktop application that connects from your computer to AWS cloud. Your sensitive cost data is not shared with anyone.
- can be used during consulting because there is no AWS account onboarding, so you don't need any approvals to use it
- It uses regular credentials (profiles) from AWS CLI, AWS SSO so there is no additional configuration required.
CloudPouch shows cost/billing data on a beautiful dashboard in a way that is much easier to understand than Cost Explorer.
It gives you better UX as well. Charts are clickable and allow you to filter Usage Type cost data. This is great when you want to understand why your costs suddenly peaked at a particular day or month.
There are search, filtering, sorting and similar capabilities that you would expect from such tool. Everything works ultra-fast because, well, it's a desktop.
Moreover, there is "Insights" functionality that analyzes your deployed resources to find cost-saving opportunities.
And the best part is that you don't share your billing data with me! Everything happens on your computer and stays there.
- tedmiston 5y agoWe have no idea how much of a savings $16k is as an absolute number across your AWS accounts. It would be more meaningful to express the percentage you were able to reduce your bill by. $16k out of $17k is a lot... $16k out of $1M is not much...
- pzubkiewicz 5y agoThat's a fair point. Thank you for that remark. EBS costs alone were $100,259 in October, so it's 16% less monthly. Total estimated cost of EBS for January is $81,195 (includes two more days till the end of the month). So, it's over 18% saving. This was achieved by applying single insight found by CloudPouch application. Total cost of the account is not relevant here, as there are many systems deployed (yes, not the best approach, but that's the way it is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). All in all, I agree with you @tedmiston, that $16k is not much if you pay $1M monthly. But over the year it is $192k which is probably a yearly salary of a cloud architect that you could have hired for your team. That shows real value of money. Bear in mind, all this comes from the application that costs $99 per year. I think it's a bargin.