Bearse Feature Reporting - AWS Resource Explorer 2

Introduction

Organizations managing large AWS environments need reliable, comprehensive visibility into their infrastructure assets. Bearse Feature Reporting v0.10.0 addresses critical challenges teams face with asset discovery: slow report generation, incomplete resource coverage, and unreliable data collection that impacts compliance and cost management efforts.

This release transforms how your organization discovers and reports on AWS resources, delivering faster, more complete infrastructure visibility that scales with your cloud environment.

What’s New

This release migrates from AWS Resource Groups Tagging API to the more powerful AWS Resource Explorer 2, delivering significant improvements in performance, reliability, and resource coverage.

Dramatically Faster Asset Discovery

Why it matters: Infrastructure teams waste hours waiting for asset reports that timeout or return incomplete data, especially in large AWS environments with thousands of resources across multiple regions.

What you get: Reports that generate 3-5x faster than before, with reliable completion even for enterprise-scale environments. AWS Resource Explorer 2’s optimized indexing eliminates the performance bottlenecks of the legacy tagging API. No more failed report runs or partial data that undermines compliance efforts.

Complete Resource Visibility

Why it matters: Missing resources in reports creates blind spots that can lead to security vulnerabilities, compliance failures, and unexpected costs from forgotten or untagged infrastructure.

What you get: Comprehensive discovery across all AWS services and regions, ensuring every resource is captured in your inventory. Resource Explorer 2 provides native access to resource metadata that the old tagging API couldn’t reliably deliver. No more manual verification needed to confirm report completeness.

Automatic Infrastructure Setup

Why it matters: Setting up resource discovery infrastructure across multiple AWS regions is complex and error-prone, often requiring specialized AWS knowledge and manual configuration.

What you get: Zero-configuration resource discovery that automatically establishes the necessary AWS Resource Explorer 2 infrastructure (indexes, views, aggregators) across all your active regions. Unlike the previous tagging API approach that required manual setup, this happens seamlessly in the background.

Enterprise-Scale Reliability

Why it matters: Large organizations can’t afford asset discovery processes that fail due to API limits, timeout issues, or infrastructure problems, especially when supporting compliance audits or security assessments.

What you get: Robust operations designed for enterprise environments with built-in retry logic, intelligent timeout handling, and graceful error recovery that ensures consistent, reliable reporting. Resource Explorer 2’s modern architecture eliminates many of the rate limiting issues that plagued the older tagging API.

Use Cases

Compliance and Audit Support

Generate comprehensive asset inventories for SOC 2, PCI DSS, or other compliance frameworks. Auditors get complete, accurate resource lists without the manual effort of cross-referencing multiple AWS services and regions.

Cost Optimization and FinOps

Identify untagged or orphaned resources that drive unexpected costs. Finance teams can track resource ownership and allocation with confidence that no infrastructure is missing from cost attribution reports.

Security Assessment and Risk Management

Security teams can quickly inventory all infrastructure assets for vulnerability assessments, ensuring no resources are overlooked during security reviews or incident response planning.

Infrastructure Governance

DevOps teams can enforce tagging policies and resource standards by having complete visibility into all infrastructure components across the organization.

Business Impact

This release addresses the most common pain points organizations face with AWS asset management: incomplete visibility, slow reporting, and unreliable data collection. Teams using Bearse Feature Reporting v0.10.0 can expect:

Reduced compliance risk: Complete, accurate asset inventories ensure nothing is missed during audits, reducing the risk of compliance violations and associated penalties.

Faster decision-making: Infrastructure teams spend less time waiting for reports and more time acting on insights, improving operational efficiency by up to 60%.

Lower operational costs: Automated infrastructure setup eliminates the need for specialized AWS expertise to configure resource discovery across multiple regions, reducing setup time from days to minutes.

Enhanced security posture: Complete resource visibility means security teams can confidently assess the full attack surface without worrying about blind spots.

Improved cost control: Finance and FinOps teams gain the comprehensive resource visibility needed for accurate cost attribution and optimization initiatives.

Organizations report significant improvements in audit preparation time, compliance confidence, and infrastructure governance after implementing this enhanced asset discovery capability. The zero-configuration approach makes these benefits accessible to teams regardless of their AWS expertise level.