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
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- Login to Aws Account and go to Billing , or click username on the right top area and then click Billing Dashboard |
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- Now click on to Budget and click Create Budgets |
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- Select Cost Budget |
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- 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 |
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-** Name your Budget and click **Next |
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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
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- Go back to Billing Console and click Budgets Reports then click Create budget report |
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- Select the newly created budget keep Delivery settings as Daily. |
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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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