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  • Cloud insider is a cloud cost optimizer solution that we offer to our customers. It helps customers to reduce their cloud spend. Today an average small business spends minimum $15000 to $20000 to develop, test and host their solutions with the cloud service provider like AWS or Azure or GCP every month. Out of the total spend, on an average 30 - 40% of the spend can be cut by taking different actions like stopping, terminating or by downgrading the instance size. The cloudinsider helps customers to do multiple actions to save cost. It allows customers to run predfined rules to shutdown instances during weekend, non business hours and start the when these period end. The customers can also define a bunch of self defined rules. The solution provides a frame work on top of which you can create rules and these rules will be executed on demand or on a fixed schedule.
  • 60 second scan to cut your cloud spend by 30+ %
  • It takes few steps to run a scan and identify your spend and optimization. Please follow the below steps.
  • Our offering is available in AWS Marketplace. You can buy your solution either from AWS Marketplace or contact through our sales if you want to do an yearly contract.
Prerequisite
  • Login into your AWS account and go to IAM service.
  • Go to roles and create a Role.
  • There will be few options as shown in the below image. create-role-specify-accounts
  • Select the "Another AWS Account"
  • Enter the following account "726941830068" in the "Account ID" field. This is the account you will be trusting and the role you create in the next step will be assumed by this account.
  • Provide an external ID, it can be any string. In our example we are going to use "cost_optimizer" create-role-specify-externalid
  • In the next step you will create a policy.
  • Search for the "cost explorer" as shown below. create-role-specify-policy
    Select the policy. Now again search for "ec2fullaccess". You will get a EC2full access policy. Select it and go to next steps. You can also add Ec2ReadOnly access in this policy instead of EC2 Full access. If you provide only read only access we will not be able to take actions like stop, terminate on the instnaces.
  • You can skip tags (it is optional) and you will be taken to a place where you will requested to specify the role name. In this example we have created the role name as "cloud_savings" and have provided the description. create-role-specify-rolename