Knowledge Base

Cost Optimization AWS Permissions for StratusGrid Engineers

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 16:42:29 GMT

During StratusGrid's success-based cost optimization projects, StratusGrid engineers required AWS read-only permissions for the assessment phase. After the assessment and customer approval of a remediation plan, additional AWS write permissions will be required by engineers.

Stratusphere Custom Findings

Mon, 17 Feb 2025 03:41:53 GMT

Stratusphere provides a centralized view of your organization's cloud spend and savings opportunities. The savings opportunities are presented from several data sources, including AWS Trusted Advisor, EC2 Compute Optimizer, and custom findings we've built into Stratusphere.

Update the Stratusphere AWS Data Source Integration

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:12:58 GMT

From time to time, it may be necessary to apply updates to the Stratusphere integration to your AWS Organizations or stand-alone accounts. This may occur for a variety of reasons, such as updates to AWS service permissions that are needed to perform in-depth cost and security assessments.

How to Remediate Orphaned Amazon EBS Snapshots

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:25:54 GMT

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is a managed service that provides block storage to compute services like AWS Fargate and Amazon EC2. One of the capabilities EBS provides is to take snapshots of volumes. This enables you to quickly create point-in-time backups of storage volumes and restore them as needed. EBS snapshots can be used as part of a production data backup strategy, or for restoring test data to run automated software tests against.

How to Remediate Idle AWS Application Load Balancers

Wed, 22 Jan 2025 17:26:13 GMT

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform provides a managed load balancing service called Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB). This service enables customers to provision and configure a load balancer with built-in security and monitoring.

There are several types of load balancers, one of which is the Application Load Balancer (ALB). The ALB resource receives inbound HTTP requests and routes them to a target service. Request routing is handled by creating user-defined rules, which include criteria based on:

How to Remediate Inactive AWS NAT Gateways

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:27:12 GMT

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform enables you to create virtual networks called Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) resources. Once you've created a VPC resource, you can attach a zero-cost Internet Gateway to it, enabling ingress & egress network traffic, across the internet, for any systems with publicly routable IPv4 addresses. However, if you'd like certain systems to have only private, non-publicly-routable IPv4 addresses, you'll need an AWS NAT Gateway to provide egress access to the Internet.

Onboard Microsoft Azure to Stratusphere

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 13:53:28 GMT

After configuring Single Sign-On (SSO) for Stratusphere, you can add a Microsoft Azure data source to your Stratusphere organization. The Azure data source uses Entra ID to authenticate to your tenant via an App Registration & Service Principal. Authentication is handled using a public/private certificate key pair. We assign the built-in Reader role to your Tenant Root Group, which enables identification of cost optimization and security findings.

How to Remediate Amazon EBS Over-Provisioned Volumes

Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:41:55 GMT

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) enables you to provision block storage volumes in your Amazon Web Services (AWS) account. These storage volumes can be configured with a variety of size and performance options, which affects their monthly cost.

Add Lifecycle Rule to S3 Bucket for Stratusphere

Stratusphere's AWStronaut — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 18:20:46 GMT

Introduction

Some customers who are deploying Stratusphere to their Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment will want to limit the amount of Cost and Usage Reporting (CUR) data that they’re paying to store in Amazon S3. Stratusphere ingests CUR data from your AWS payer accounts on a regular basis, hence only a limited history is needed to be retained.

Google Cloud SSO Configuration User Guide

Thu, 22 Aug 2024 18:37:35 GMT

Please follow the steps below to register the Stratusphere application in Google Cloud console.