DataTransfer Cost Analysis Dashboard

Introduction

The Data Transfer Dashboard is an interactive, customizable and accessible QuickSight dashboard to help customers gain insights into their data transfer. It will analyze any data transfer that incurs a cost such as outbound/internet, Inter Region and Inter AZ data transfer from all services.

This dashboard contains data transfer breakdowns with the following visuals:

• Data Transfer Summary

• Internet Data transfer, AWS Global Accelerator cost estimation details

• Regional Data transfer Details

• Data transfer AZ

• CloudFront Cost and Usage Analysis

Demo Dashboard

Get more familiar with Dashboard using the live, interactive demo dashboard following this link

Prerequisites

1. Deploy one or more of the foundational dashboards: CUDOS, Cost Intelligence, or KPI Dashboard.

Deployment

CloudFormation

Note

Prerequisite: To install this dashboard using CloudFormation, you need to install Foundational Dashboards CFN with version v4.0.0 or above as described here

1. Log in to to your Data Collection Account.

2. Click the Launch Stack button below to open the pre-populated stack template in your CloudFormation.

   

3. You can change Stack name for your template if you wish.

4. Leave Parameters values as it is.

5. Review the configuration and click Create stack.

6. You will see the stack will start in CREATE_IN_PROGRESS. Once complete, the stack will show CREATE_COMPLETE

7. You can check the stack output for dashboard URLs.

   Note

   Troubleshooting: If you see error "No export named cid-CidExecArn found" during stack deployment, make sure you have completed prerequisite steps.

Command Line

Alternative method to install dashboards is the cid-cmd tool.

1. Log in to to your Data Collection Account.

2. Open up a command-line interface with permissions to run API requests in your AWS account. We recommend to use CloudShell.

3. In your command-line interface run the following command to download and install the CID CLI tool:

   pip3 install --upgrade cid-cmd

4. In your command-line interface run the following command to deploy the dashboard:

   cid-cmd deploy --dashboard-id datatransfer-cost-analysis-dashboard

   Please follow the instructions from the deployment wizard. More info about command line options are in the Readme or cid-cmd --help.

Update

Please note that dashboards are not updated with update of CloudFormation Stack. When new version of the dashboard template is released, you can update your dashboard by running the following command in your command-line interface:

cid-cmd update --dashboard-id datatransfer-cost-analysis-dashboard

Authors

• Chaitanya Shah, Principal Technical Account Manager

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