aws-super-cli 0.1.2

AWS Super CLI - Multi-account AWS resource discovery with service-level cost intelligence

AWS Super CLI

What is AWS Super CLI?

AWS Super CLI is a command-line tool for AWS resource discovery and cost analysis across multiple accounts. It solves two key problems:

1. Multi-account resource visibility: See all your AWS resources across accounts in unified tables
2. Service-level cost intelligence: Get detailed cost analysis with credit allocation per service

Unlike the AWS CLI which requires manual profile switching and outputs verbose JSON, AWS Super CLI provides clean tables and can query multiple accounts simultaneously.

Unique feature: Service-level credit usage analysis - see exactly which AWS services consume your promotional credits and at what percentage.

Installation

pip install aws-super-cli

Quick Start

# List EC2 instances across all accounts
awsx ls ec2 --all-accounts

# Get cost summary with credit analysis
awsx cost summary
awsx cost credits-by-service

# List available AWS profiles
awsx accounts

Cost Analysis

AWS Super CLI provides comprehensive cost analysis using AWS Cost Explorer API:

Basic Cost Commands

awsx cost summary                # Overview with trends and credit breakdown
awsx cost top-spend              # Top spending services (gross costs)
awsx cost with-credits           # Top spending services (net costs after credits)
awsx cost month                  # Current month costs (matches AWS console)
awsx cost daily --days 7         # Daily cost trends
awsx cost by-account             # Multi-account cost breakdown

Credit Analysis

awsx cost credits               # Credit usage trends and burn rate
awsx cost credits-by-service    # Service-level credit breakdown

Key Features

• Gross vs Net costs: Separate "what you'd pay" from "what you actually pay"
• Console accuracy: Matches AWS Billing console exactly (fixes API/console discrepancy)
• Credit transparency: See exactly where promotional credits are applied
• Service-level breakdown: Which services consume most credits with coverage percentages
• Trend analysis: Historical patterns and monthly forecasting

Example Output

💰 Cost Summary
Period: Last 30 days
Gross Cost (without credits): $665.75
Net Cost (with credits):      $-0.05
Credits Applied:              $665.79
Daily Average (gross):        $22.19
Trend: ↗ +123.7%

Top Services by Credit Usage
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Service                                ┃   Gross Cost ┃ Credits Applied ┃     Net Cost ┃  Coverage  ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ Amazon Relational Database Service     │      $366.62 │         $366.62 │       <$0.01 │   100.0%   │
│ Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud - Compute │       $89.65 │          $89.65 │        $0.00 │   100.0%   │
│ Amazon Virtual Private Cloud           │       $83.05 │          $83.05 │        $0.00 │   100.0%   │
└────────────────────────────────────────┴──────────────┴─────────────────┴──────────────┴────────────┘

Supported Services

Service	Command	Multi-Account	Filters
EC2	awsx ls ec2	✅	--state, --instance-type, --tag
S3	awsx ls s3		--match
VPC	awsx ls vpc		--match
RDS	awsx ls rds		--engine
Lambda	awsx ls lambda		--runtime
ELB	awsx ls elb		--type
IAM	awsx ls iam		--iam-type

Multi-Account Support

awsx automatically discovers AWS profiles and queries them in parallel:

# Query all accessible accounts
awsx ls ec2 --all-accounts

# Query specific accounts
awsx ls s3 --accounts "prod-account,staging-account"

# Pattern matching
awsx ls rds --accounts "prod-*"

# List available profiles
awsx accounts

Usage Examples

Resource discovery:

# Find all running production instances
awsx ls ec2 --all-accounts --state running --match prod

# Audit IAM users across production accounts
awsx ls iam --accounts "prod-*" --iam-type users

# Find PostgreSQL databases
awsx ls rds --engine postgres --all-accounts

Cost analysis:

# Monthly financial review
awsx cost summary
awsx cost month
awsx cost credits

# Cost optimization research
awsx cost top-spend --days 7
awsx cost credits-by-service
awsx cost daily --days 30

# Multi-account cost breakdown
awsx cost by-account

Why AWS Super CLI?

Feature	AWS CLI v2	AWS Super CLI	Other Tools
Multi-account queries	Manual switching	Automatic parallel	Varies
Output format	JSON only	Rich tables	Varies
Cost analysis	None	Advanced	Basic
Credit tracking	None	Service-level	None
Setup complexity	Medium	Zero config	High

AWS Super CLI is the only tool that provides service-level credit usage analysis.

Technical Details

Cost Explorer Integration

AWS Super CLI fixes a major discrepancy between AWS Cost Explorer API and the AWS Console. The console excludes credits by default, but the API includes them, causing confusion. AWS Super CLI handles this correctly and provides both views.

Multi-Account Architecture

• Automatically discovers profiles from ~/.aws/config and ~/.aws/credentials
• Executes API calls in parallel across accounts and regions
• Handles AWS SSO, IAM roles, and standard credentials
• Respects rate limits and implements proper error handling

Performance

• Parallel API calls across accounts/regions
• Efficient data aggregation and formatting
• Minimal API requests (most resource listing is free)
• Cost Explorer API usage: ~$0.01 per cost analysis command

Configuration

AWS Super CLI uses your existing AWS configuration. No additional setup required.

Supports:

• AWS profiles
• AWS SSO
• IAM roles
• Environment variables
• EC2 instance profiles

Requirements

• Python 3.8+
• AWS credentials configured
• Permissions:
  • Resource listing: ec2:Describe*, s3:List*, rds:Describe*, lambda:List*, elasticloadbalancing:Describe*, iam:List*, sts:GetCallerIdentity
  • Cost analysis: ce:GetCostAndUsage, ce:GetDimensionValues

API Costs

Operation	Cost	Commands
Resource listing	Free	All awsx ls commands
Cost Explorer API	$0.01/request	awsx cost commands

Monthly cost estimate: $0.50-2.00 for typical usage.

Advanced Usage

Debugging:

awsx cost summary --debug
awsx ls ec2 --all-accounts --debug
awsx test

Filtering:

# Fuzzy matching
awsx ls ec2 --match "web"

# Specific filters
awsx ls ec2 --state running --instance-type "t3.*"
awsx ls ec2 --tag "Environment=prod"

# Time-based cost analysis
awsx cost daily --days 14
awsx cost summary --days 90

Contributing

Contributions welcome. Areas of interest:

• Additional AWS service support
• Enhanced cost analysis features
• Multi-account support for more services
• Performance optimizations

License

Apache 2.0

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AWS Super CLI - Multi-account AWS resource discovery with service-level cost intelligence.