Background

By default, the CloudFormation Script you used when integrating your Cost Report bucket with Tim forwards events only for the US-East-1 AWS Region. Forwarding CloudWatch events for the other regions you use will produce a better Real-time Running Cost. If this is important to you, please repeat the steps below for each CloudWatch region you are in beyond US-East-1. If you have Sub Accounts that you want Real-time Running Cost for, you'll need to repeat these steps in each of those Sub Accounts too.

Instructions

• Go to the CloudWatch Console​

• Click on Rules under Events in the left navigation pane and then click Create rule

• Under Event Source, make sure that Event Pattern is the selected option.

• Click Edit in the Event Pattern Preview text area and copy and paste the following snippet into the pop up text area and click Save.

{
  "source": [
    "aws.ec2"
  ],
  "detail-type": [
    "EC2 Instance State-change Notification"
  ]
}

• To the right of the screen, click Add target

• In the drop-down selector, scroll down and select Event bus in another AWS account

• In the Account ID field, add Tim's AWS account ID: 845897643164

• Just below, please select Use existing role

• Under Use existing role search and select the taloflowInvokeEventBusRole.

• Scroll down and click Configure details to move onto the next page.

• Please give the Rule the name taloflowInvokeEventBusRule and click Create rule