viniciussalmeida/aws-resource-count

Provides a tool to estimate the count of resources in an aws acccount

aws-resource-count

Provides a tool to estimate the count of resources in an aws account. The tool uses AWS resource explorer to create a view of the resources in an account and then counts the number of resources by type. The view is deleted after the count is complete.

Prerequisites

• Python 3.6+
• AWS Profiles configured in ~/.aws/config or ~/.aws/credentials for the accounts of interest
• AWS Resource Explorer enabled in the accounts of interest

Installation From Source

Clone the repository and change directory

git clone https://github.com/gofireflyio/aws-resource-count.git
cd aws-resource-count

Setup a virtual environment

virtualenv venv

Activate the virtual environment

source venv/bin/activate

Install the package

pip3 install aws-resource-count

Usage

Pass the list of aws profiles to scan as arguments to the command:

aws-resource-count prod-acount stage-account dev-account

Optionally pass a local file path to write the output to:

aws-resource-count prod-acount stage-account dev-account --output_file /tmp/output.json

Output is JSON formatted with count by type and total sum e.g

{
  "resource_types": {
    "cloudformation:stack": 6,
    "cloudtrail:trail": 1,
    "ec2:dhcp-options": 26,
    "ec2:instance": 3,
    "elasticache:user": 26,
    "iam:instance-profile": 1,
    "iam:mfa": 3,
    "iam:policy": 2
  },
  "total_assets": 68
}