MANUAL_SETUP_README.md

Enabling Slack

To enable posting the message to Slack you must define a secret in secrets manager called 'awsgenie_secret_manager' with key=slack_url and value=.

Enabling SNS

To enable posting the message to SNS you must define a secret in secrets manager called 'awsgenie_secret_manager' with key=sns_arn and value=.

Enabling Teams

To enable posting the message to Teams you must define a secret in secrets manager called 'awsgenie_secret_manager' with key=teams_url and value=.

Setting up Lambda

There are 3 parts to configuring this to run as a Lambda

1. IAM Role for Lambda - The IAM Role for you Lambda will have to give permissions for Lambda and Cost Explorer.
2. Trigger - Event Bridge(Cloudwatch Alarms) setup with a cron expression to trigger a run daily.
3. Function Code - You can directly paste in the get_forecast.py file is is all ready to go.

Click here for instructions for setting up Lambda

Technical Notes

SSL Errors posting message to slack

If you get SSL Cert errors defining this environment varialbe may help you:

export SSL_CERT_FILE=$(python -m certifi)