Recently (May 16th, 2022), AWS made a small announcement related to AWS Control Tower that will be huge for my AWS environment and probably for many others as well. Namely, that you can now use customer provided core accounts when implementing Control Tower. Background AWS Control Tower is a great solution if you are setting…
Month: May 2022
Using AWS Cost Explorer for Forecasting
Introduction One constant topic that comes up whenever discussing cloud costs with my counterparts in Finance is the notion of forecasting. Finance people love to forecast and it’s a big part of their job. However, forecasting AWS spend is notoriously difficult for several reasons: The fact that cloud costs are consumption based and thus highly…
Implementing CUDOS for an Enterprise – Part 2: Filtering Data using Row Level Security
Introduction In my first post on the CUDOS solution, I showed you how you can implement implement SSO access to CUDOS using AWS Single Sign-on service. Leveraging this capability you can enable users to sign in to QuickSight using their corporate credentials and avoid having to give them full access to the AWS console. Now…