Table of contents

• General info
• Technologies
• Prerequisites
• Usage example
• Report

General info

This program is designed to automatically create reports in xlsx format, based on the output of awless program (awless list)

Technologies

Program is created and tested with:

• Python version: 3.6 (3.6.3)

There are two versions of the program:

• awless.py
• awless_v2.py

awless.py program requires only one input – aws profile name aka aws account.

• Pros: one run for each account. Covers all regions.
• Cons: execution time is much longer.

awless_v2.py program requires two inputs - region name and aws profile name (aka aws account) - and should be rerun each time for new region.

• Pros: execution time is accordingly less.
• Cons: multiple reruns per regions for each account.

Prerequisites

To run this program:

1. Install Python version 3.6 and pip
2. Install awless
3. Install awscli

pip install awscli --upgrade

4. Install requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

5. Configure each aws account with aws cli. For consitency, profile name should be identical to aws account name.

aws configure --profile [profile_name]

Usage example

awless.py:

awless_v2.py:

Report