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AWS Budgets

Links: 114 AWS SOA Index

AWS Budgets

  • Create budget and send alarms when costs exceeds the budget.
  • 4 types of budgets: Usage, Cost, Reservation, Savings Plans
    • So AWS budgets is not just limited to cost.
  • We can have forecasts.
  • For Reserved Instances (RI)
    • Track utilisation
    • Supports EC2, ElastiCache, RDS, Redshift
  • Up to 5 SNS notifications per budget
  • Can filter by: Service, Linked Account, Tag, Purchase Option, Instance Type, Region, Availability Zone, API Operation, etc...
  • Same options as AWS Cost Explorer, but more granularity.
  • 2 budgets are free, then $0.02/day/budget.
A company is developing some new applications in a development account. The costs associated with the account have been rising management acre concerned. A SysOps Administrator has been tasked with configuring alerts that will notify management when the accounts’ costs or usage are forecasted to exceed a specified spending amount. Which AWS service should the Administrator use?

AWS Budgets. If you see alerts in questions go for AWS Budgets over AWS Cost Explorer.

AWS Cost Explorer is incorrect. AWS Cost Explorer does provide forecasting, but AWS Budgets should be used for alerting for specific spending budgets.

Last updated: 2023-03-16