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Cutting down AWS cost by $150k per year simply by shutting things off
> The best optimization is simply shutting things off
This is the way.
A similar idea has been bouncing around in my mind for a while now. An ideal, turnkey system would do the following:
- Execute via Lambda (serverless).
- Support automated startup and shutdown of various AWS resources on a schedule influenced by specially formatted tags.
- Enable resources to be brought back up out of schedule when demand dictates.
- Operate as a TCP/HTTP proxy that can delay clients so that a given service can be started when it is dormant or, even better, the service isn't serverless but you want it to be. This can't work for everything, but perhaps enough things such that the need to run always on services is reduced.
Cloud Custodian [1] can purportedly do some of this, but I've been reluctant to learn yet another YAML-based DSL to use it.
So this is my "make things designed to be always-on serverless instead" project and the work AWS has done to make Java apps function on Lambda keeps me thinking about the potential to take things that 1) have a relatively long startup time and 2) are designed to be long running service loops, and find a way to force them into the serverless execution model.
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When have you screwed up, bad?
Goal was to clear up anything old and set us up to rotate keys in use. Why did I do it in the end of December? It was a quarterly goal and I learned to push those across the line if I wanted a good review. Great incentive, that one. I used Cloud Custodian for this. It has a terrible bug where the code says you'll be acting on days since the key was used but actually is reading days since it was created.
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Open-Source tools for monitoring ML/AI usage- Recommendations?
What is wrong with https://github.com/cloud-custodian/cloud-custodian?
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Automate deletion of aws ebs snapshots older than year
You can start reading about it here.
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Optimizing cost on an app which is not used 24/7
Use a tool like this https://cloudcustodian.io/ to manage instance on/off hours or go fargate.
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Going for the CCP with a Compliance background. Any insight on what direction to pursue in AWS?
Certs aside, there are some great compliance tools out there that you might want to become familiar with. Here is one that comes to mind (is open-source): https://cloudcustodian.io/
- What are some of the community's best recommendations and use cases for Cost Optimization and FinOps
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EC2 start and stop via Lambda
I'd use a combination of Cloudcustodian for start/stop scheduling and Apprise for notifications.
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Tag Enforcement
Cloud custodian is a good utility if config rules doesn’t satisfy your needs. It’s also cross platform.
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26 AWS Security Best Practices to Adopt in Production
AWS Security with open source – Cloud Custodian is a Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) tool. CSPM tools evaluate your cloud configuration and identify common configuration mistakes. They also monitor cloud logs to detect threats and configuration changes.
ScoutSuite
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Azure and M365 Secure Config Review
Prowler and ScoutSuite are a good start for cloud stuff.
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Open source alternative cloud security tool that works like Wiz/Lacework/Aqua
Another solution might be ScoutSuite, they have support for all major clouds - aws,gcp and azure. But its probably not maintained as well. ScoutSuite
- CSPM opensource suggestions
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Creating a jump host in 2023
If you're planning to use Active Directory and/or Azure AD, run ADRecon/AzureADRecon and Bloodhound frequently and review in depth. Run ScoutSuite frequently and review as part of a normal operational cycle (e.g., at weekly team meetings make the results available and set aside 15 minutes to discuss and make assignments). Look critically at where these three tools overlap within two or three degrees of separation from your jump hosts (e.g., hosts/nodes that are one or two devices away and users/security groups that are one or two devices away) for help prioritizing when you have too many high-risk/high-impact items to look through.
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How to do AWS security assesment?
https://github.com/nccgroup/ScoutSuite (I used it for GCP one time, but I can't say if it good for AWS)
- Scanning for AWS Security Issues with Trivy
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Automated penetration testing for a cloud infrastructure
I'd take a look at ScoutSuite. It runs on your infra and spits back a remarkably readable report.
- Pentesting
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AWS Security Checklist
If you could get a read-only (audit?) account you could use ScoutSuite to pull the accounts and review them: https://github.com/nccgroup/ScoutSuite
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This Week in Python
ScoutSuite – Multi-Cloud Security Auditing Tool
What are some alternatives?
terraform - Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.
prowler - Prowler is an Open Source Security tool for AWS, Azure, GCP and Kubernetes to do security assessments, audits, incident response, compliance, continuous monitoring, hardening and forensics readiness. Includes CIS, NIST 800, NIST CSF, CISA, FedRAMP, PCI-DSS, GDPR, HIPAA, FFIEC, SOC2, GXP, Well-Architected Security, ENS and more
steampipe - Zero-ETL, infinite possibilities. Live query APIs, code & more with SQL. No DB required.
cloudsploit - Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
gatekeeper - 🐊 Gatekeeper - Policy Controller for Kubernetes
Scout2 - Security auditing tool for AWS environments
fixinventory - Fix Inventory consolidates user, resource, and configuration data from your cloud environments into a unified, graph-based asset inventory.
pacu - The AWS exploitation framework, designed for testing the security of Amazon Web Services environments.
cloudquery - The open source high performance ELT framework powered by Apache Arrow
kubestriker - A Blazing fast Security Auditing tool for Kubernetes
checkov - Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images and open source packages with Checkov by Bridgecrew.
cloudmapper - CloudMapper helps you analyze your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments.