Amazon WorkSpaces, a fully managed, secure virtual desktop computing service on the AWS Cloud, eliminates the need for customers to procure, deploy, and manage complex virtual desktop environments. Amazon WorkSpaces offers the flexibility to pay hourly or monthly without any up-front commitment.
To help customers with unpredictable WorkSpace usage patterns monitor their Amazon WorkSpaces usage and optimize costs, AWS offers the Amazon WorkSpaces Cost Optimizer, a solution that analyzes all of your WorkSpace usage data and automatically converts the WorkSpace to the most cost-effective billing option (hourly or monthly) depending on the user's individual usage. This solution is easy to deploy and uses AWS CloudFormation to automatically provision and configure the necessary AWS services.
Deploy the WorkSpaces Cost Optimizer CloudFormation Template
For the full solution overview visit WorkSpaces Cost Optimizer on AWS
Clone the repository
git clone [email protected]:awslabs/workspaces-cost-optimizer.git
Set the destination bucket name- this bucket should be in the region you're deploying the solution to.
export TEMPLATE_BUCKET_NAME=<YOUR_TEMPLATE_BUCKET_NAME>
export DIST_BUCKET_NAME=<YOUR_DIST_BUCKET_NAME>
export SOLUTION_NAME="workspaces-cost-optimizer"
export VERSION=<VERSION>
## NOTE THAT the region is appended to the DIST_BUCKET_NAME (DIST_BUCKET_NAME-REGION) when deployed, so creating a bucket with only Bucket_Name will not work.
Run the build script.
chmod +x ./build-s3-dist.sh && ./build-s3-dist.sh $TEMPLATE_OUTPUT_BUCKET $DIST_OUTPUT_BUCKET $SOLUTION_NAME $VERSION
Upload the artifacts.
aws s3 cp ./dist/ s3://$BUCKET_NAME-[region]/workspaces-cost-optimizer/$VERSION --recursive
You should now have everything in place to run the CloudFormation template (either from your bucket or from ./deployment/dist/).
chmod +x "./run-unit-tests.sh" && "./run-unit-tests.sh"
- source/engine/wco.py - depends on source/engine/lib/directory_reader.py
- source/engine/lib/directory_reader.py depends on workspaces_helper
- source/engine/lib/workspaces_helper.py depends on metrics_helper
- source/engine/lib/metrics_helper.py
- source/helpers/create-task.py
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