CloudRows Overview

Easily manage your AWS spending and track your budget

So your company's IT moved to AWS...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) makes it easier to scale your IT infrastructure on-demand. But now, when you can actually consume an infinite amount of IT services, how do you make sure that you do not exceed your IT budget?

One option would be to wait for the upcoming monthly billing statement and look at the grand total. However, that might be too late - you may already be exceeding your budget by using excessive resources. To make things worse, you will keep paying for the excessive resource, until you are able to identify and deallocate it. That's why even relatively small budget exceptions may inflict large costs over time with on-demand spending.

What is CloudRows?

CloudRows delivers cost control for your Amazon Web Services (AWS) account. It enables you to be sure you are operating within your IT budget, and notifies you before a budget exception is about to occur.

The key functionality of the CloudRows service includes:

• Spending analytics
• Activity analytics
• Budget management
• Active push-notifications for budget exceptions

How CloudRows Works

CloudRows works by constantly monitoring your AWS activity logs in the background, and producing meaningful cost analytic reports. The key design goal for the CloudRows platform architecture was to provide a non-intrusive active monitoring solution.

What makes CloudRows different?

Unlike other active cost control solutions which require custom installation on each of your cloud servers, CloudRows operates nonintrusively by analyzing the native AWS activity logs that are generated by Amazon. These are the same logs that are used by Amazon to construct your monthly AWS billing statement. This approach features the following benefits:

• No installation is required on your part in order to access CloudRows reports
• CloudRows has zero footprint on your existing and future IT setup

Key benefits

No setup required / Zero footprint

CloudRows is a fully-hosted solution. You don't have to install anything in order to get started. Upon signup, CloudRows starts to monitor your AWS activity logs directly from Amazon. Additionally, Using CloudRows has no impact on your existing IT setup, since the AWS activity logs are analyzed and processed on the CloudRows server.

Push notifications

CloudRows delivers the peace of mind that you need to stay in budget with on-demand billing. With push-notifications, you can be sure that you will never be surprised by the AWS billing statement.

Deployment options

CloudRows can be deployed in various configurations, depending on your company's specific requirements:

• Fully hosted - The CloudRows service is already fully deployed on AWS, available via the cloudrows.com website. Sign up now.
• Hosted Virtual Appliance - Customers who require an isolated deployment can purchase an isolated CloudRows Analytics Server installation. Request a price quote.
• Private instance - Customers wishing to deploy their own instance of the CloudRows Analytics Server can launch a new EC2 instance from the CloudRows AMI. Request a price quote.