Hi everyone!
I’m currently using the KodeKloud AWS Sandbox, and it works great. However, for more advanced deployments, I sometimes need additional permissions that aren’t available in the sandbox.
I don’t want to use my personal AWS account directly, so I’m looking to create something similar to the KodeKloud AWS Sandbox—with a timer and automatic cleanup to prevent unnecessary costs.
Could you share which AWS services or tools you’ve used (or would recommend) to build a similar sandbox environment? Any best practices or insights would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
When a playground session ends, scripts are run to check for and delete all the possible resources that could have been created during the session. That’s one reason for the limited number of services., Each time a service is added, that script needs to be extended and tested.
The way you should experiment, and works for your own account too, is to create all infrastructure as cloud formation or terraform. That way you can simply delete it all in one go and know that it is all deleted.
In the real world, nobody ever creates production resources using the AWS console. It is unmanageable because you end up not knowing what you have, and modifying/deleting is a nightmare.
If you see yourself doing a job involving cloud, then you must learn and use Infrastructure as Code.