Instance-Watcher :eyes:

Introduction

Instance-Watcher will send you a daily recap notification with the list of the running instances on all AWS regions for a given AWS Account.

Currently, It covers the following AWS Services:

• EC2 Instances
• RDS Instances
• SageMaker Notebook Instances
• Glue Development Endpoints
• Redshift Clusters

Useful for non-prod, lab/training, sandbox, or personal AWS accounts, to get a kindly reminder of what you've left running. :money_with_wings:

Notifications could be:

• Slack Message
• Microsoft Teams Message
• Email

Features

• Customizable schedule
• Whitelisting capability
• Month to Date (MTD) Spending
• Forecasted Monthly Spend
• Slack Notifications (Optional)
• Microsoft Teams Notifications (Optional)
• Emails Notifications (Optional)
• Custom Tags

Sneak Peek

Email Notification

Slack Notification

Teams Notification

Requirements

AWS SES: Before you can send an email using Amazon SES, you must verify the address or domain that you are sending the email from to prove that you own it. If you do not have production access yet, you also need to verify any email addresses that you send emails to except for email addresses provided by the Amazon SES mailbox simulator.

Deployment

Change default parameters in Makefile or use directly the command-line with parameters.

Nb: Recipients are space-delimited

Parameters

Deployment steps

    $ make artifacts
    $ make package Project=<your_project_name>
    $ make verify-sender
    $ make deploy

Nb: Use emails in the command line is optional if you've already set up in the Makefile

Whitelisting

If you want to whitelist a specific instance to be hidden from the daily report, you will need to add the following tag to the instance.

nb: Tag Key is customizable in Makefile

Destroy

    $ make tear-down