AWS adds Graviton Savings Dashboard to help enterprises optimize infra costs

How does it work?

The dashboard is an integration of existing AWS services, such as Amazon S3, Athena, and QuickSight.

At the back end, the dashboard first uses AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR), the AWS SDK, and the AWS Public pricing API to generate data on usage, cost, and resource inventory, which is stored in Amazon S3.

Next, it analyzes the data stored in S3 using Athena — a serverless query service — to generate insights about potential cost savings. These insights or the results of the query are presented in a visualized format with the help of AWS’ business intelligence tool — Amazon QuickSight.

Enterprises looking to deploy the dashboard can do so via AWS CloudFormation Templates and a “cid-cmd” command line tool, the company said.

However, AWS pointed out that in order to deploy the dashboard, enterprises will need to set up their AWS CUR service, Inventory Collector Module from the Optimization Data Collection lab, and QuickSight.

Further, the cloud services provider revealed that the dashboard typically costs between $50 and $100 per month.