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BOYD and the CUR(s)
BOYD supports all AWS Cost and Usage Report versions currently available, but which should you choose? This question matters a lot if you are data engineering CUR processing, but, technically speaking, BOYD doesn’t really care. Some nuances in the formats for each version may slow down collecting data slightly, but think of it as shoveling […]
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Meet BOYD
An AWS Cost and Usage Reports utility tool for asset/inventory management and archaeological analysis Tracking assets and inventorying resources in AWS can be a challenge. There are service provider options, but most of them are tedious. AWS Config? Not cheap, not all resources are supported, and using aggregation excludes deleted resources while adding more clickOps […]
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Into the Clouds with a Shovel
I changed jobs close to seven years ago with a personal objective to learn Python. Having battled “data challenges” during every facet of my career, I couldn’t see myself keeping up without the ability to automate collection and analysis of data. My new role was primarily security and compliance related, but a subset of my […]