BOYD
An AWS Cost and Usage Report Analysis Tool
Collect, classify analyze, and export AWS Cost and Usage Reports
Turn your AWS Cost and Usage Report dataset into an archaeological dig site. Collect, classify, analyze, explore, and take control of your cost incurring resources.
Locally Installed
AWS CLI access and a CUR S3 bucket are all that is required get started with BOYD, our AWS CUR tool.
Custom Schema Selection
Custom schema selection to reduce the amount of data collected and keep it relevant to your use case.
Analysis and Classification
Bar, line, area, sankey, sunburst, tree map! Efficiently filter, analyze and gain understanding of your the data set. Monitor daily and monthly trends. Apply context to your resource data and fill tagging gaps for cost allocation and inventory tracking.
Dig Mode
Identify resources through resource context and activity. Query AWS get/list/describe API calls, Cloudtrail events, and Config. Automated classifications based on excavated context (for supported resources).
AWS billing data analysis can be challenging. AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR) are massive and complex datasets hidden behind multiple cloud services and APIs.
BOYD is a learning tool to help bridge the technical gap between users and their data. BOYD helps you identify and carve out the data that matters to your use case, dramatically reducing the size of the dataset being analyzed, while capable of processing millions of rows of data.
Features
- Explore CUR datasets in S3 to identify columns for your use case;
- Custom schema selection to reduce the size of the dataset collected;
- Define classifications and apply context to your collected data;
- Use Dig Mode to view AWS resource, Cloudtrail and Config API results;
- AWS cost report visualizations for spend and usage with multiple chart types and filters;
- CSV exporting for analysis or sharing via external applications;
- Publish collected and classified results to S3 for sharing results.
AWS CLI Access?
S3 Bucket Name?
Start Digging!
A utility tool for many occasions.
Finance
Small and medium businesses users tasked with AWS cost optimization. Apply classifications that reflect your cost allocation needs and generate monthly finance reports.
Consulting
Quickly access and collect AWS CUR data so your time can be spent analyzing and reporting on client data instead of engineering visibility into it.
Data Sharing
Publish results to S3 to share results with other BOYD users or for integration with BI tools. Create unique resource inventories with context for creating and managing lookup/join files.
Security/Compliance
Security and Compliance teams struggling with AWS asset management can identify cost-incurring assets and track additional context for resources, critical steps for reverse engineering cloud architectures.
Project Management
Isolate and analyze resource context and consumption. Measure usage and costs to identify opportunities for optimization and potential inefficiencies. Pinpoint services consumed and areas for optimization.
Requirements
- AWS command line access to your Cost and Usage Report (CUR) S3 bucket;
- Supports AWS CUR 1.0, 2.0 and FOCUS Data Exports;
- AWS CUR Data Export configured in billing account with the following options:
- Include resource IDs enabled
- Data export delivery options: Parquet format;
- Report Versioning: Overwrite existing data export file;
- Daily reporting is recommended; hourly reporting is supported but may result in much larger datasets and reduced performance.
- Recommended less than 1GB/month total CUR parquet size but mileage will vary depending on the schema columns collected and your AWS architecture.
- Mac supported (Windows support in development)