Check AWS Resources Limit And Usage | AWS Limit Checker

How to Check AWS  Limit and Usage

AWS limit checker 

It is a command line tool to check AWS resources limit and its current usage. It have the following feature:

• Check current AWS resource usage against AWS Service Limits
• Show and inspect current usage
• Override default Service Limits (for accounts with increased limits)
• Compare current usage to limits; return information about limits that exceed thresholds, and (CLI wrapper) exit non-0 if thresholds are exceeded
• Define custom thresholds per-limit
• Where possible, pull current limits from Trusted Advisor API
• Supports explicitly setting the AWS region
• Supports using STS to assume roles in other accounts, including using external_id.

Video Tutorial:

Requirements:

• Python 2.6 through 3.5 (it should work, but is no longer tested, with PyPy and PyPy3).
• Python VirtualEnv and pip (recommended installation method; your OS/distribution should have packages for these)
• boto3 >= 1.2.3

Installation:

virtualenv limitchecker
source limitchecker/bin/activate
pip install awslimitchecker

Credentials:

Credentials would be picked up from Boto conf (~/.aws/credentials or ~/.aws/config)

Permissions:

The account  credentials being used should have enough access or should have the policy generated by the following command:

awslimitchecker --iam-policy

How To Use:

Help options:

awslimitchecker --help

Listing Supported Services:

awslimitchecker -s

List Default Limit(Ignoring limit overrides):

awslimitchecker --list-defaults

Checking Limits:

awslimitchecker -l

Checking Current Usage:

awslimitchecker -u

More options and examples can be found here.