Deployment

[AliSajid]

Hi. I saw the blog post and I have gone through the repo and I love the approach it takes. This can help me control costs at our lab quickly and efficiently. However, and this might be an idiotic question, where and how do we deploy this?

[jroboyd]

Yea a lot of work clearly has gone into this. It is just the first step that is unclear! How do you load the data in??

[farski]

Not the author, but the files in this project are fairly generic SQL commands, so you could use them against lots of different data sources, as long as they contain standard AWS Cost and Usage Reports data. The intention, though, is to run them against CUR data loaded in Redshift. There's lots of different ways to do that, but the AWS docs do include one example solution for getting CUR into Redshift. Once you've done that, you'd run the various SQL in sequence, and it will populate the Cloudstats tables, which you could then query, visualize, etc.