Preventing Billing

If we don’t set an alert in AWS, we won’t receive a notification if bill/fees/charges surpass a specific limit. It means we may get unexpected bills and trouble with financial problems ( in Doller :).

well I also got a small bill, after that, I immediately set up an alert and from then I regularly monitored my resource usage

[Note]: People also have received 1000+ $ bills because of ignorance or miscalculation. So, be careful.

prevent unexpected costs

AWS feature which helps:

• AWS Budget: feature provided by AWS to set up alerts, it notification on emails.

AWS Budget

AWS Budgets lets you set custom cost and usage budgets that alert you when your budget thresholds are exceeded (or forecasted to exceed).

Dashboard

login in AWS account

Now in Search Budget in the search bar, then open ‘AWS Budgets’ from the Services option.

It will open up the ‘Budgets page’

Let's look at the Important thing in this window

1. ‘My Zero-Spend Budget’: this one is a budget alert, I had created earlier. at first, this area should be empty.
2. ‘Create budget’: this button is used to create a budget alert.

• Click on ‘Create Budget’ to set the configuration
• Budget setup: use a template(simplified)
• Templates — new: Zero spend Budget
• Budget Name: <any-name>
• Email recipients: <provide email to receive alert>

3. ‘Free tier’: this section shows resources that have been used and the monthly forecast based on current usages.