About this site.
dynamiccloud.info is a public demo of LightPane — the embeddable cloud-monitoring pane built by Clouds and Light. Every pane on every lab page is reading live data from a real AWS account dedicated to this demo. When you click invoke, you're invoking real Lambdas. When you sign the guestbook, you're writing to a real DynamoDB table.
The point of all this: most cloud-monitoring tools want a 2-week trial, a sales call, and a procurement form before they let you see anything. We thought you might just want to click a button.
What is LightPane?
LightPane is a JavaScript pane you embed in any web page — an internal dashboard, an incident runbook, a status page, anywhere — and it shows your AWS / GCP / Azure account state, live, with no infrastructure to run on your side. Drop a script tag in, pass an access key, get a pane.
The free tier (we call it Explorer) gives you 15 of these panes for one cloud account. No credit card.
Tiers
This site is itself running on Explorer-tier — one cloud account, 15 bespoke panes plus the generic service-discovery pane underneath them. As you grow, the tiers add features and panes:
- Explorer (free): 1 cloud account, 15 panes, 1 provider, 7-day data retention.
- Team (£129): 3 cloud accounts, 30 panes including Cost Summary, Idle Resource Finder, Rightsize. Excel export. Email alerts.
- Business (£429): 15 accounts, all 54+ panes, multi-cloud (AWS + GCP + Azure), Slack/Teams alerts, RBAC.
- Enterprise (£1,299): 50 accounts, custom panes, SSO/SAML, audit log, dedicated support.
- Partner (£2,499): Unlimited accounts, white-label, partner portal.
Free → Team → Business is organic — sign up, expand as your cloud usage grows. Business → Enterprise → Partner involves a sales conversation.
Try LightPane on your own account
Click Try LightPane in the nav. The signup flow takes about 3 minutes and includes a one-click "Launch Stack" CloudFormation template that deploys the read-only IAM role LightPane needs.
Or join the waitlist
Want a heads-up when we launch new panes or tier features? Drop your email here. We send roughly one update a month.
What's running this site?
Mostly things in the AWS Always-Free tier. CloudFront for the CDN, S3 for the static origin, Lambda + API Gateway for the labs, DynamoDB for the guestbook. The only things we actually pay for are the Route 53 hosted zone (~50p/month) and the WAF Web ACL (~£5/month). The full breakdown is in the Cost reveal lab — and the Free Tier guide walks through how to put your own business on a setup like this.
Source + roadmap
The bespoke panes you see here (lambda-radar, dynamodb, cw-alarms, cost-summary, region-map, free-tier monitor, etc.) are part of the LightPane catalogue — there's a roadmap of ~57 panes total, with new ones added monthly. The brief for this site, the lab specs, and the pane catalogue are public documents on GitHub.