CloudCheckr Review
12 Jun 2014 So as I’ve progressed to living in the Visual Studio and Microsoft Windows eco system to using a Mac and Xamarin building cross platform apps to also being a head of devops and using the Amazon Web Services Cloud to setup 3 new start ups now there have been some tools and services that have stayed with me and improved and been a vital part of my toolbox.CloudCheckr is one such tool and has come on in leaps and bounds since I started using it for a single use case back in the day so I thought I would post about this application and what it did for me then. I went from the free use teir to a paid one I think its that good even though I am just using it to monitor some personal projects.
Best Practices
My first and still an important use case as I was getting to know AWS was best practises. Is my cloud setup secure, available and am I under or over usage?This was and is still a very useful tool as it’s easy to forget to lock something down or forget that you fire up 1000 servers somewhere as a test.
Have I left ports open? Having a service send you best practises is worth every penny spent.
![Best Practices](https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.solrevdev.com/blog/cloudcheckr-best-practices.png)
Spend Optimization
This was next up once I knew things were secure. Getting warning and potential cost savings especially important with start ups was invaluable.![Spend Optimisation](https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.solrevdev.com/blog/cloudcheckr-spend.png)
More Features
Since then they have added new features which are explained better on their website so I shall finish by just linking off to them and suggest you give them a free trial you will not be disappointed.Home Page
Cost Allocation
Resource Reporting
You Tube Video