Switching Profiles
How to change which AWS account or Azure subscription Escher is looking at — and how to ask questions across more than one at the same time.
Design intent vs shipped
The verified app exposes profile management via Settings → Profiles, where each connected AWS profile and Azure subscription appears with a toggle switch. The exact in-app affordances for in-context switching (a profile selector / dropdown / quick-switch shortcut) may differ in your build; ping your Tessell contact if the specifics here don't match.
Where to find profile controls
Settings → Profiles is the canonical surface for managing which profiles Escher uses. Each profile is a toggle switch — flip on the profiles you want active, flip off the rest. Paused profiles aren't scanned and aren't included in answers.
From here you can also:
- Add a new AWS profile or Azure subscription
- See each profile's last-refreshed timestamp and status
- Remove a profile that's no longer in use
See Add a Cloud Profile for the add-flow.
Switching between AWS profiles
If you've connected multiple AWS accounts, each one appears as its own profile in Settings → Profiles under the AWS section. Toggle the profile(s) you want active. Estate Overview re-renders against the union of currently-active profiles.
To keep all connected AWS accounts in scope at once, toggle them all on. Escher reasons across every active profile in the same answer.
TIP
Asking "How does cost compare across our prod accounts?" with all relevant accounts toggled on is faster than running the same question per profile and stitching the answers manually.
Switching between Azure subscriptions
Azure subscriptions show up in the same Settings → Profiles surface, under the Azure section. Each subscription is its own toggle. Flip on the subscriptions you want active.
If a subscription is missing from the list, it's not yet connected. Add it via the cloud-add flow — see Add a Cloud Profile.
Switching between AWS and Azure
Cross-cloud is the same surface. Toggle profiles on under each provider section — Escher answers questions against the union of every active profile, across providers.
This is when Escher gets interesting. Try:
"Where do we run similar workloads in AWS and Azure, and which is cheaper to run?"
"List every public-facing storage resource across all our clouds."
"Are our IAM groups consistent between AWS and Azure?"
Escher resolves the question across every active profile and synthesizes one Canvas with the combined answer.
Pausing a profile
If you want Escher to ignore a profile temporarily without removing it, just toggle it off in Settings → Profiles. Toggle it back on whenever you want it back in scope. The profile keeps its credentials and configuration — only its inclusion in scans and answers changes.
What's next
- Add a Cloud Profile
- Multi-Cloud — full multi-cloud setup
- Asking Questions — phrase questions that span profiles