Setup Guide

Get Cloudlink running in under 5 minutes. Connect your AWS account, run your first scan, and start tracking cost regressions.

1. Create your account

2. Add an AWS credential

Navigate to Dashboard → Credentials and click Add credential.

Cloudlink supports two authentication methods:

IAM Role (recommended) — Create a read-only IAM role in your AWS account with ce:GetCostAndUsage and ce:GetCostForecast permissions. Paste the Role ARN into Cloudlink.
Access Keys — Create an IAM user with read-only Cost Explorer access. Paste the Access Key ID and Secret.

Minimum IAM Policy

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ce:GetCostAndUsage",
        "ce:GetCostForecast",
        "s3:ListAllMyBuckets",
        "s3:GetBucketVersioning",
        "s3:GetBucketLocation"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

3. Run your first scan

Click Run scan in the top nav. Cloudlink will discover your AWS resources and start collecting hourly cost snapshots.

4. Connect your CI pipeline

To detect cost regressions linked to deploys, add a webhook to your CI pipeline. See the CI Integration guide for details.

5. Wait for baseline

Cloudlink needs 7 days of hourly cost data to build a reliable baseline. During this time, cost snapshots are collected automatically every 30 minutes. Once the baseline is ready, regressions will be detected automatically after each deploy.