Workload Discovery on AWS

Maintain an inventory of the AWS resources across your accounts and various Regions

Overview

Workload Discovery on AWS (formerly called AWS Perspective) is a tool to visualize AWS Cloud workloads. Use Workload Discovery on AWS to build, customize, and share detailed architecture diagrams of your workloads based on live data from AWS.

The image to the right is a sample architecture diagram generated by Workload Discovery on AWS.

Benefits

Build architecture diagrams

Workload Discovery on AWS lets you build, customize, and share detailed architecture diagrams. Workload Discovery on AWS maintains an inventory of the AWS resources across your accounts and Regions, mapping relationships between them, and displaying them in a web UI.

Query AWS Cost & Usage Reports (CURs)

The cost query builder lets you locate AWS resources and services that may have incurred a cost. The estimated cost data is automatically calculated for the time period specified and displays on your architecture diagrams.

You can generate a cost report for your architecture diagrams that contains an overview of the  estimated cost and export them as CSV.

Search

The search feature lets you use basic information, such as resource name, Tag name, or IP address to locate the resources you are interested in.

Resource directory

Explore resources provisioned across your accounts and Regions using the resource directory. It contains all the resources Workload Discovery on AWS has discovered. You can start building your Workload Discovery on AWS architecture diagrams by selecting a resource in the web UI.

Save and export architecture diagrams

You can save your Workload Discovery on AWS architecture diagram to revisit later or share it with other Workload Discovery on AWS users. To use the diagrams outside of Workload Discovery on AWS you can export to PNG, JSON, CSV, or draw.io.

Technical details

The following diagram presents the serverless architecture, which you can automatically deploy by either using the solution's implementation guide and accompanying AWS CloudFormation template.

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An introduction to AWS Config and the process of recording and normalizing configuration changes within your AWS account. We also cover use cases and configuration, and we give a brief demonstration as well.

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Introduction to AWS CloudFormation

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Use cases for this AWS Solution
Data Operations
About this deployment
Version
2.1.0
Released
09/2023
Author
AWS
Est. deployment time
30 mins
Estimated cost
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