24-16 AWS Budgets
AWS Budgets give you the ability to set up alerts if you exceed or are approaching your defined budget
- Create Cost, Usage, or Reservation Budgets
- It can be tracked at the monthly, quarterly, or yearly levels, with customizable start and end dates
- Alerts support EC2, RDS, Redshift, and ElastiCache reservations.
AWS Budgets can be used to Forecast costs but is limited compared to Cost Explorer or doing your analysis with AWS Cost and Usage Reports along with a Business Intelligence tool
Budget based on a fixed cost or plan your upfront based on your chosen level
Can be easily managed from the AWS Budgets dashboard or via the Budgets API.
Get Notified by providing an email or Chatbot and threshold how close to the current or forecasted budget