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Get your free AWS savings assessment
Takes a minute. We'll send you the CloudFormation template and a written analysis of your AWS spend within two business days — yours to keep, whether or not you go further.
Questions before you fill this out? Email us at contact@hivetekcorp.com and a real engineer will answer.
What you are agreeing to
One CloudFormation template, about 10 minutes, and nothing that touches a running resource.
- It creates a billing export, an S3 bucket to hold it, and a role scoped to cost data.
- It cannot read your application data and cannot touch a running resource.
- A written analysis of your account by the end of the second business day.
- The report is yours to keep whether or not you go any further.
- Delete the stack whenever you like, and that ends our access.
If something goes wrong
The things that actually trip people up. If yours isn't here, just reply to our email or write to contact@hivetekcorp.com — a person reads it.
Your assessment is unique to you and tied to your email address. The role you send back has to be the one this assessment's template created. If you edit the template, or paste a role from a different assessment, we may not be able to generate your report — the page will tell you before you submit rather than failing quietly afterwards.
Yes. The assessment id in the template is what ties the role in your account back to your report, and it is also the ExternalId that lets us assume the role at all. If it is edited, we cannot read your billing data and no report is produced. Relaunch from the link we emailed you rather than editing an old stack.
You will only see that account's billing, not your organisation's — and the report will look complete rather than partial, which is the dangerous part. Delete that stack and relaunch in the payer account, the one that owns the Cost and Usage Report.
It will be refused. Each role name ends in the assessment id it belongs to, and we check that the role you send matches the assessment you are completing. Copy CrossAccountRoleArn from the Outputs tab of the stack you launched from your own email link.
You have almost certainly launched it twice. Delete the older stack in the AWS console, wait for the deletion to finish, and launch again from the link in your email. Deleting the stack removes the role and the export it created, which is what frees the names up.
The link in the email we sent you is the only way back — it carries your assessment id, and nothing else knows it. Reopen that link and you will land on this page with everything still filled in. If you cannot find the email, reply to our email and we will resend it.
Usually within two business days. The wait is AWS, not us: when your account has never produced a Cost and Usage Report before, AWS takes up to 24 hours to deliver the first file, and we cannot analyse anything until it lands. If your account already had one, it is quicker.
Check that the stack shows CREATE_COMPLETE and that you pasted the role from its Outputs tab. If both are true and it has been more than two business days, reply to our email — we can see where your assessment stopped and tell you why.
Our access ends immediately, and the role and the billing export it created are removed with it. Two things stay, because they are yours and not ours to delete: the S3 bucket in your account holding the exported billing files, and the report we already sent you. Delete the bucket yourself if you want it gone.