PLUTUS : AWS Cost Management & Alerting Tool

A notification tool which reads AWS Cost Usage Reports on daily basis and sends alerts to Slack based on user defined cost limits.

Inspired from : https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-upload-aws-cost-usage-reports-to-redshift-and-quicksight/

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1. PLUTUS : Cost Alerting Tool for AWS Cloud
2. dev on ops duty @indix oss contributor (oss.indix.com) Twitter : @_iameveryware Here for sharing our work over Cost Management on AWS and PLUTUS ! aayush kumar
3. our AWS story . . . We have enormously scaled our data processing infrastructure on AWS cloud • At any time around 1500 machines • More than 50 S3 buckets with TBs of data storage • Rapid Multi AZ deployments and much more . . . • SIGNIFICANT COSTS !!
4. cost management at Indix • Vamana : Dynamic auto-scaling based on application metrics ◦ GitHub : https://github.com/indix/vamana ◦ SlideDeck : https://speakerdeck.com/ashwanthkumar/introducing-vamana • Matsya : Placing the auto-scaling in right spot market if available, otherwise fall back to On-Demand ◦ GitHub : https://github.com/indix/matsya ◦ SlideDeck : https://speakerdeck.com/ashwanthkumar/matsya-apr-16 ~ SAVED close to a million dollars a year ~
5. Untracked Cost
6. keeping track of cost fluctuation • Having a monitoring system to regularly track your cost fluctuation is essential. • Several paid solutions are available out there. Other common tools used by the users - AWS Budget/ Netflix Ice/ Trusted Advisor/ Cost Explorer/CloudTrail etc. • Manual effort has to done on Cost Explorer to analyse costs in detail. Why not automate it ?
7. introducing PLUTUS A notification tool which reads AWS Cost Usage Reports on daily basis and sends alerts based on user defined cost limits. Inspired from : https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-upload-aws-cost-usage-reports-to-redshift-and-quicksight/
8. sample slack config
9. alert on slack
10. how it works
11. So far no spikes observed. Almost everything is tracked now
12. questions ? I am working on releasing this as an open source project Consider it as a new kid in the block, willing to improve with feedback and guidance :) Thank You !!