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Thursday, April 6, 2017

How to setup budget and get billing alerts on AWS ?


A lot of times we create instances on amazon using EC2 and the RDS service which amazon offers and after a few days we start getting invoice for items which we have never used.
So in this tutorial I will explain you how to setup billing alerts and set budget on AWS so that you don’t face these charges.
Firs of all we need to set a billing alert and we will create an AWS budget for that.

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Click on create budget.

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Select all services from included service option below budget amount and add your email in notification settings.

aws budget set alert

Now click on create and your budget is created, you will start getting billing alerts if the cost crosses 250$.
aws budget created on amazon

You can configure your aws budget accordingly, this was just for demonstration.

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