AWS Cost & Monitoring Dashboard
✓ Control cloud costs & gain visibility
FinOps dashboard: cost breakdown by service/environment, budget alerts when usage crosses thresholds, CloudWatch metrics, uptime checks, and optimization recommendations.
The Problem
Companies using AWS often get surprise bills because costs are spread across many services. There's no clear visibility into which environment (dev/staging/prod) costs how much. No alerts before budgets are exceeded. Optimization opportunities are missed.
The Solution
A dashboard that pulls data from AWS Cost Explorer and CloudWatch. Shows cost breakdown by service, by environment tag, by team. Budget alerts via email/Slack. Optimization recommendations based on usage patterns. Uptime monitoring with historical data.
Results
- 30% cost reduction through optimization recommendations
- Zero surprise bills with budget alerts
- Clear visibility into cost drivers
- Faster incident response with uptime monitoring
- Easy cost allocation to teams/projects
Key Features
Tech Stack
| Technology | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Python | Backend data processing |
| AWS Cost Explorer API | Cost data retrieval |
| AWS CloudWatch | Metrics and monitoring |
| Lambda | Scheduled data collection |
| DynamoDB | Historical data storage |
| SNS | Alert notifications |
| React | Dashboard frontend |
Security
- • IAM role with minimal permissions
- • No sensitive data stored (only aggregated costs)
- • Authenticated dashboard access
- • VPC endpoints for AWS API calls
Performance
- • Lambda scheduled runs (not real-time)
- • DynamoDB for fast queries
- • Cached dashboard data
- • Pre-aggregated daily summaries
Deployment
- • Terraform for infrastructure
- • EventBridge for scheduled Lambda
- • S3 for frontend hosting
- • CloudFront for CDN
Monthly Cost
$5-15
estimated
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