how to gather resource information from an account

Question

hi Guys, I just started at new company and they have multiple aws accounts and I'm still learning AWS. I am trying to create an asset tracking file. I like to know what each accounts has in terms of # of things such as ec2/s3/vpc/subnets/domains/hosted zones/db etc...etc...

I do see that VPC dashboard does show many of the resources but not all. So is something like what I am asking possible?

Thanks in advance

I do see that VPC dashboard does show many of the resources but not all. So is something like what I am asking possible?

Thanks in advance

Accepted Answer

One easy way is to use Tag Editor. ("Resource Groups" Management Console -> "Tag Editor")

Try to search with the following conditions.  You will get the list of the resources supported tag on the account.
- Regions : All regions
- Resource types: All supported resource types

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ARG/latest/userguide/find-resources-to-tag.html

Answer

There's not a great, all encompassing way to gather resources account wide, but if you're using [AWS Config](https://aws.amazon.com/config/) you can gather all resources region wide. That's AWS's answer to a CMDb. To do that via the AWS Console, just search for AWS Config and select **Resources** on the left hand side of the Config Console. This assumes that Config is turned on of course. If Config isn't setup, you can dig into the [Cost Explorer ](https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/aws-cost-explorer/) to see what's billing. Either are good options to start piecing together the resources in your AWS accounts.

how to gather resource information from an account

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