Integrating with Microsoft Teams
Budget overruns and missed cost alerts can significantly reduce the returns on your cloud investments. To ensure every dollar spent delivers value, it is always essential to keep a close watch on your cloud resources. Relying solely on email notifications for cost alerts can delay prompt actions as they often go unnoticed.
Integrating AWS cost notifications with Microsoft Teams offers a proactive solution to this challenge. It delivers critical alerts, in real-time, right into your workspace. This integration acts as your early warning system, ensuring you and your team are immediately informed of budget breaches or cost anomalies. This integration makes sure that your team is always in the loop to take swift action against unexpected or unwanted cloud expenses.
How do I send AWS notifications to Microsoft Teams?
There are several methods to receive AWS notifications in Microsoft Teams. Here we are going to explore one of the easiest methods. This integration will take only a few minutes but will save you hours of manual work every week.
Economize is a cloud cost optimization platform designed to streamline your cloud finances. With real-time monitoring, detailed analytics, and intelligent recommendations, Economize helps you to track, analyze, and optimize your cloud costs across platforms like AWS, GCP, and Microsoft Azure. The platform offers agentless integration, automated cost monitoring, and actionable insights and recommendations, to identify potential savings in your cloud environment.
Onboarding your AWS Account to Economize
Onboarding your AWS account to Economize is a very simple process. You can onboard it by creating an AWS Cost and Usage Report and then integrating it with Athena for further analysis. Make sure to use the Management account during onboarding to connect AWS to Economize.
Step 1: Connect with CUR (Cost & Usage Report)
- First, provide Economize the access to connect to AWS CUR via an IAM role.
- You can either use an existing CUR or create a new one (recommended) to connect.
- For a new CUR, Click on Create stack to get redirected to AWS CloudFormation with prefilled settings that will look as follows.
- Check on the I acknowledge that AWS CloudFormation might create IAM resources within the blue dialog box.
- Click on Create stack.
- Once the stack has been created, the application must validate itself.
- In case the stack has been created but not validated yet, copy the value of RoleArn from the Outputs field in the AWS console and paste it into the provided field during the onboarding process.
- Click on Next.
- Once the RoleArn ID is been verified you can proceed with the next steps of onboarding.
In case you are using an existing CUR, select Yes when asked for the same during onboarding and follow these steps:
- Enter the Bucket name, and select the Region where it’s been hosted.
- Click on Create stack to get redirected to AWS CloudFormation with prefilled settings.
- Check on the I acknowledge that AWS CloudFormation might create IAM resources within the blue dialog box and click on Create Stack.
- Once the stack has been created copy the value of RoleArn from the Outputs field in the AWS console and paste it into the provided field during the onboarding process.
- Click on Next.
- Once the RoleArn ID is been verified you can proceed with the next steps of onboarding.
It may take up to 24 hours for CUR data to propagate. Meanwhile, you can use Economize recommendations for cost optimization.
Step 2: Integrate CUR with Athena
- Once the CUR is ready for integration with Athena it will indicate the same on the Economize dashboard as follows.
- Click on Integrate Cost & Usage Report, which will redirect you to the AWS CloudFormation with prefilled settings that will look as follows.
- Check on the I acknowledge that AWS CloudFormation might create IAM resources within the blue dialog box.
- Click on Create stack.
- Once the stack has been created successfully, come back to Economize and click on Finish.
Integrating Economize with Microsoft Teams
Once you onboard your AWS account, Economize will start monitoring your account for any unexpected cost spikes. It also provides you with cost-saving recommendations to optimize your cloud cost. Follow the below steps to integrate Microsoft Teams with Economize to receive configured notifications:
Step 1: Create a webhook
- Refer to the official Microsoft Teams documentation to create a webhook for the channel where you want to receive the notifications.
Step 2: Link the webhook with Economize
- Navigate to the integrations page in the settings of the Economize console.
- Click on the Configure button for Microsoft Teams.
- You can view already connected webhooks or add new ones by clicking on the + Add workspace button.
- Enter the information of the webhook you created earlier, including its URL and name.
- Click on the Create Integration button.
- Once the webhook is connected you will be redirected back to the Economize dashboard.
Why Should You Choose Economize to Optimize Cloud Cost?
Cloud cost management is a challenge many organizations face. With unexpected expenses and inefficiencies driving budgets higher, Economize brings clarity and insights into your cloud spending. Economize can help you in:
- Real-Time Optimization and Monitoring Economize continuously analyzes your cloud infrastructure, identifying cost-saving opportunities through automated scanning and real-time monitoring. Our platform detects spending anomalies instantly, helping prevent unexpected cost escalations.
- Smart Recommendations Engine Our platform functions as your dedicated cost optimization advisor, providing actionable recommendations for cloud spending. Each suggestion includes detailed savings projections, enabling informed decision-making for budget optimization.
- Advanced Analytics and Visualization Transform complex cloud spending data into clear insights through interactive dashboards and detailed cost breakdowns. Our intuitive visualization tools help you identify trends and optimize resources effectively.
- Intelligent Problem Detection Quickly identify and resolve cost issues through advanced root-cause analysis and anomaly detection. Our platform helps you understand and address the source of unexpected expenses immediately.
- Effortless Integration Get started in under five minutes with our agentless setup. Our platform integrates seamlessly with your existing cloud infrastructure and workflow tools, providing continuous monitoring without manual intervention.
Conclusion
Cloud cost management doesn’t have to be overwhelming. With Economize, you gain the tools and insights to optimize your spending and integrating with Microsoft Teams makes cost alerts actionable in real time. By delivering critical cost notifications directly into your workspace, you can respond to anomalies, and collaborate with your team to resolve them as quickly as possible.
Moreover, investing in a cloud cost optimization platform like Economize helps you adopt a proactive approach to cloud management. It gives you the clarity, and control, to decide how your cloud resources are utilized.
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