Explore AWS Budgets with a Budget Report

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“ I have checked the documents of AWS to create a budget and notify the recipients when billing reaches the limit. To configure, I used AWS Budget service. Pricing of AWS Budget based on monitor and receive notifications on your budgets which is free of charge to some extent and budget report will incur a cost of $0.01.”

AWS Budgets used to track and take action on your AWS costs and usage. You can use AWS Budgets to monitor your aggregate utilization and coverage metrics for your reserved instances or savings plans.

In this post, you will get to know how to explore aws budgets with a budget report.

Architecture Overview

The architecture diagram shows the overall deployment architecture with data flow, aws budgets, amazon sns, email notification to recipients.

Solution overview

The blog post consists of the following phases:

Create AWS Budgets with Zero Spend Budget
Create AWS Budgets with Monthly Cost Budget and Create Budget Report on Daily Basis

Phase 1: Create AWS Budgets with Zero Spend Budget

Open the AWS Budgets console and create a budget with default settings as zero spend budget. Specify the budget name, email recipients and create the budget. This will be notified once the spend is above $0.01 incurred. We can edit the alert and add-on the sns alerts option.

Phase 2: Create AWS Budgets with Monthly Cost Budget and Create Budget Report on Daily Basis

In the AWS Budgets console, create a budget with a monthly cost budget. Specify the budget name, email recipients and budget amount. This will be notified once the actual spend reaches 85% or 100%. Also create a budget report on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.