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Warren Parad @wparad

AWS Quota Monitor Limitations: Building Custom Solutions

AWS Quota Monitor "broken by design". Relies on incomplete/inaccurate data from AWS. Build custom quota monitors instead!

$78,641.25

Per Month.
That's the predicted amount of running the official quota monitor released by AWS for ~1000 AWS accounts in your organization. For us at Authress, and those that have AWS accounts per customer or spin up extra ones per team/product/service, this cost could actually be significantly higher.
Obviously this isn't an entirely fair interpretation of the cost analytics. But it is pretty ridiculous that the cost here scales like this. We would full expect a near zero cost for running a Quota Monitor.
That is, when we need additional resources, AWS should provide a free way for...