Overview

While CloudFix is designed to unlock significant savings in your AWS bill you are wondering if CloudFix itself incurs additional charges on your AWS bill as part of its operation.

Information

CloudFix incurs negligible additional costs on your AWS bill. These costs are created from the following sources:

• CloudFix calls CloudWatch APIs to populate an S3 bucket in the CloudFix account. These costs are really minor (less than $0.1 per resource annually). CloudWatch metrics are only collected for resources where CloudFix can generate cost-saving recommendations.
• Cost & Usage Report (CUR) - These reports are stored in an S3 bucket in your account. This costs less than 0.025% of total AWS costs, or $0.25 annually per 1000 resources in the account.
• Amazon Athena queries - CloudFix runs its per-finder CUR queries in an Athena workgroup (CloudFixWorkspace) created in your account, capped by a per-query bytes-scanned cutoff (1 TB by default, configurable via the stack's AthenaBytesScannedCutoff parameter). These queries run automatically each time a new CUR is delivered, so Athena charges recur in your account according to standard Amazon Athena pricing.
• AWS Glue crawler - A Glue crawler (AWSCURCrawler-CloudFix-CUR) runs in your account on each CUR delivery to keep the CUR table definitions current, incurring standard AWS Glue pricing charges.