2) Know your resources and spend

Once you have confidence that your account is safe, you can now concentrate on the resources which run inside of it. In this tutorial we will use InfViz and AWS native services to map out your environment.

InfViz for visualizing your resource configuration

A common scenario for many businesses is that they want to visualise what they running in their AWS accounts. This is to help communicate for architecture, engineering and operations purposes.

InfViz provides a simple way to generate a diagram from your AWS environment within seconds.

Sample of InfViz generating a diagram

One off diagram generation

Using InfViz studio you can easily generate a diagram of your AWS environment. Below is a screen shot of the two options of importing your AWS environment into InfViz.

InfViz Studio import options Access Key or Cross Account Role

Continous diagram generation using scripts

Using InfViz desktop you can easily generate a diagram of your AWS environment on a continous basis.

On mac use crontab or on windows use schuduler to run the following command

~/.infviz/infviz convert -t aws -a <ACCESS_KEY> -k <SECRET_KEY> -r <REGION>

Billing for understand your service usage

Finding out the services which you are consuming can be done by the AWS billing console.

AWS Billing showing the services you are using