Setup an everyday alert for your AWS usage bill

DAY 2 - AWS Budgets

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Goal

Monitor your costs against a specified dollar amount and receive alerts on a daily basis.
Use cases - everyday report to Managers, CFO, Cloud Administrator

Prerequisite

AWS Account - User administrative privileges or with minimum access to the Budget (Limited: Read, Write)

You should have a budget setup on Billing & Cost Management Dashboard.

Also Make sure you create budget alert on root account if you are using ControlTower

Lets Start

For this tutorial i will be creating both budget and Budget reports.

Step 1

Create a budget

Screenshots	Steps
	- Login to Aws Account and go to Billing , or click username on the right top area and then click Billing Dashboard
	- Now click on to Budget and click Create Budgets
	- Select Cost Budget
	- Select Period as Monthly(there are options available for Daily, Monthly, Annualy - Keep it as Recurring budget - Choose how to budget as Fixed - Enter your budgeted amount
	-** Name your Budget and click **Next
	Click on add a threshold ,set 80% **as your threshold also enter the **Email recipients (alternatively you can add SNS arn if you have one). Click Next **and **Create Budget

Step 2

Creating a daily budget report

Screenshots	Steps
	- Go back to Billing Console and click Budgets Reports then click Create budget report
	- Select the newly created budget keep Delivery settings as Daily.
	Report frequency as Daily , and enter the email address of recipients. Finally give a name and click Create budget Report

🎉Congratulations🎉 you have successfully created a daily budget alert for you AWS infrastructure.

For more refinement on delivering these messages to Slack Channel, Microsoft Teams Channel or to any company chat channels i have created a sample tutorial here or read on iCTPro.co.nz

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Experienced Cloud Technology Specialist with a demonstrated skillset of working with Banking , Medical Service , NZ Police & Education industry