Account access
Create your CostWarden account
Two fields now, one read-only role after. The first scan reads 90 days backwards, so you start with what already happened instead of an empty chart.
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What connecting actually does
CostWardenReadOnlyRead-only, and named
The connection is an IAM role in your own account, assumed against an external ID unique to your organization. It reads 5 things. It cannot start, stop, resize or delete anything, and there is no agent to install.
ce:GetCostAndUsage compute-optimizer:GetEC2InstanceRecommendations compute-optimizer:GetEBSVolumeRecommendations ec2:DescribeInstances ec2:DescribeVolumes
The first scan looks backwards
Day one reads 90 days of history and replays the detector across it, so an episode from last month is on the dashboard before tomorrow's scan has run.
90d · NetAmortizedCost · USD
The trial clock starts when it works
14 days, counted from the first time the role assumes and a scan returns data — not from the moment you create the account. If setup takes you a week, you still get 14 days.
first_connected_at + 14d
One person builds and supports CostWarden, and that same person reads everything sent from the contact page.