User guide

Getting started

1. Open the plans page and choose the Free scan plan, or any other plan. Tell us your name, your e-mail address and your company.
2. We open your workspace and e-mail the owner an invitation. Use the link in it to choose a password. The link works once and expires after a few days; ask us for a new one if it has expired.
3. Sign in at your workspace address. It looks like your-company.recloud.linexa.eu.
4. Add your first project (next section).

Connect a project

You connect a Google Cloud project in two minutes. reCloud never asks for a key file.

1. In your workspace, choose Projects and then Add a project. Enter the project ID.
2. Open Cloud Shell in that project and run the one line reCloud shows you.
3. The line enables three APIs (Cloud Asset, Monitoring and Recommender), creates the custom role ReCloud scanner and gives it to the reCloud account. It gives that account no permission to read your data.
4. Back in reCloud, start the scan. A first scan takes a few minutes, depending on the size of the project.

Want to review the permissions first? Write to support@linexa.eu and we send you the full role file.

The dashboard

The dashboard is your cloud on one page.

• reCloud score: from 0 to 100 for each project. It goes up as you fix findings and assign owners.
• Savings per month and the number of urgent issues.
• Your next moves: the decisions with the most impact, most important first.
• Your cloud, mapped: every project, what runs in it and how it is doing. Click a project to fold or unfold it.
• Health by domain: cost, security and ownership side by side, so you see where to look first.

Zombie detection

A zombie is a resource that costs money and does nothing. The Zombies page lists them.

Every finding comes with the reason it was flagged, what it costs per month and a delete-safety rating. Open a finding to see the details and the command that removes it.

Cost

The cost view ranks the savings by effort and risk, with each opportunity and its monthly saving. Start with the low-effort, low-risk ones.

Figures are list-price estimates until your billing export is connected. Use them to compare and to choose, not as an invoice.

Security

The security view lists the risky settings first: databases open to the internet, public VMs, default accounts, missing backups, broad roles and old service account keys. Each finding has a fix and a severity, so you can work from the top.

Ownership

Every company struggles with ownership. reCloud lists the resources that have no owner label, and shows the labels next to every resource. Assign an owner before you delete anything: the owner is the person who knows whether a resource still matters.

Fix a finding safely

reCloud shows the command and never runs it. You decide.

1. Read the reason and the delete-safety rating.
2. Check what depends on the resource, and ask its owner.
3. Take a snapshot first, so you can bring it back.
4. Run the command yourself, in your own cloud.
5. Scan again and watch the score go up.

Your team

Each user has one role.

To add or remove someone, or to change a role, write to support@linexa.eu for now. Inviting members from the workspace is coming.

Plan, bills and guarantee

In Settings, owners, admins and billing members see the workspace plan and its monthly bills. Plans are billed monthly in euros, and the project limit of your plan is enforced when you add a project. Compare the plans.

Every plan has a 30-day money-back guarantee: write to support@linexa.eu within 30 days of your first payment and we refund your first month in full.

End access, any time

Stop reCloud from reading a project with one command in Cloud Shell. Replace PROJECT_ID and RECLOUD_ACCOUNT with the values reCloud showed you:

gcloud projects remove-iam-policy-binding PROJECT_ID \
  --member=serviceAccount:RECLOUD_ACCOUNT \
  --role=projects/PROJECT_ID/roles/recloudScanner

You can also disconnect the project in reCloud. Its data is then deleted within 30 days.

Delete your account

An owner can delete the whole workspace at any time: open Settings and choose Delete my account.

• The page first lists everything that will be deleted: projects, resources, scans, findings, members and invitations.
• You confirm by typing the workspace address. The deletion is immediate, and nothing can be recovered afterwards, not even by us.
• Members who belong to no other workspace lose their reCloud account too.
• Bills already issued are kept for our accounts, and nothing more is billed.
• The read-only account in your Google Cloud project is not removed for you. The page shows the command for each project: run it to end our access for good.

Limits

• Google Cloud is supported, in early access. AWS and Azure are next.
• Cost figures are list-price estimates until the billing export is connected.
• The number of projects depends on your plan.
• reCloud reads descriptions, not data. It cannot tell you what is inside a bucket or a database.

Support

LineXa Consulting: support@linexa.eu. A person answers. See also the terms of service, the privacy policy and the Data Processing Addendum.