TAO Dashboard Deployment

1. Login into your Linked (Data Collection) Account where you would like to deploy dashboard

2. Click the Launch CloudFormation button below to open the pre-populated stack template in your CloudFormation console and select Next

   • Launch CloudFormation Template

3. Enter a Stack name for your template such as Cloud-Intelligence-Dashboards

4. Review Common Parameters and confirm prerequisites before specifying the other parameters. You must answer ‘yes’ to both prerequisites questions.

5. Copy and paste your QuicksightUserName into the parameter text box. To find your QuickSight username:

   • Open a new tab or window and navigate to the QuickSight console
   • Find your username in the top right navigation bar

6. Update your Path to Optimization Data Collection S3 bucket if needed.

7. Check that Deploy TAO Dashboard is set to yes.

8. Review the configuration, click I acknowledge that AWS CloudFormation might create IAM resources, and click Create stack.

9. You will see the stack will start in CREATE_IN_PROGRESS

   NOTE: This step can take 5mins

10. Once complete, the stack will show CREATE_COMPLETE

11. Navigate back to CloudFormation and to the Output of the Stack tab and check dashboard URLS. Click on a URL to open the dashboards.

    NOTE: This Output Section will be available once the Stack is Completed

Step 1: Prepare Athena

If this is the first time you will be using Athena you will need to complete a few setup steps before you are able to create the views needed. If you are already a regular Athena user you can skip these steps and move on to the Enable Quicksight section below.

To get Athena warmed up:

1. From the services list, choose S3

2. Create a new S3 bucket for Athena queries to be logged to. Keep to the same region as the S3 bucket created for your Trusted Advisor Organizational View reports.

3. From the services list, choose Athena

4. Select Get Started to enable Athena and start the basic configuration

5. At the top of this screen select Before you run your first query, you need to set up a query result location in Amazon S3.

   

6. Enter the path of the bucket created for Athena queries, it is recommended that you also select the AutoComplete option NOTE: The trailing “/” in the folder path is required!

Step 2: Deploy Dashboard

Follow the How to use steps for installation and dashboard deployment. We recommend to use AWS CloudShell for automated deployment

1. Open up a terminal application with permissions to run API requests against your AWS account. We recommend CloudShell.

2. We will be following the steps outlined in the Cloud Intelligence Dashboards automation GitHub repo. For more information on the CLI tool, please visit the repo.

3. In your Terminal type the following and hit return. This will make sure you have the latest pip package installed. python3 -m ensurepip --upgrade

4. In your Terminal type the following and hit return. This will download and install the CID CLI tool. pip3 install --upgrade cid-cmd

5. In your Terminal, type the following and hit return. You are now starting the process of deploying the dashboards. cid-cmd deploy

   Or you can provide all parameters in the command line. Please make sure the S3 path is the one where you have Trusted Advisor data collected.

cid-cmd -vv deploy \
  --dashboard-id ta-organizational-view \
  --athena-database optimization_data \
  --view-ta-organizational-view-reports-s3FolderPath \
  's3://costoptimizationdata{account_id}/trusted-advisor/trusted-advisor-data'

6. Select the Trusted Advisor Organizational View dashboard and proceed with deployment.