One of the things that prevents a lot of people from exploring AWS is the cost. Some AWS services are very expensive. Accidentally forgetting to cu...
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Great article! I definitely have a lot of horror stories π
For those who use Terraform I recently created a module to define budgets and receive the alerts via Slack channel, I will let the link here just in case any of you want to give it a try.
Terraform Registry: registry.terraform.io/modules/rrib...
Github: github.com/rribeiro1/terraform-aws...
Thanks for sharing!
You should also checkout and have a play with ACG playground (if you haven't already).
help.acloud.guru/hc/en-us/sections...
I'll be recommending it for most beginners going forward.
Would be cool if AWS offered such functionality...
Very good article and timely. This is exactly what we implemented last week after a development lambda running on a schedule went a little rogue writing out 1000s of failed axios error objects to CloudWatch every minute for days. Our CloudWatch bill went from around $8 to $8000. That bill was not a fun thing to wake up to.
Ceora, I think this topic is outdated. In CloudWatch, the billing button does not exist anymore, in the upper left section. I think they took it out.
But I managed to create this functionality using the Budgets feature of the Billing service.
Maybe the Budgets feature didn't exist back when you wrote this article?
This is a great overview. I also work on a product that helps notify you of costs along the way that removes a lot of the management overhead mentioned above. You should check it out - would love to hear what you think! vantage.sh/
Check out AWS budgets instead, easier, more info, I've setup a github with a CDK project and deploy stack button with CF template as a starter for those interested:
talkncloud.com/aws-essential-setti...
But, the big, unexpected bill is a right of passage! Love that this is your 2nd post on AWS.
Hopefully not anymoreπ and thank you!
Great post! AWS is too easy to leave on and incur an bill.
Thank you!
Agreed! And thank you!
What's the thought behind using CloudWatch over creating a budget with a threshold?
thanks for sharing.. applied the steps to my account :p
Yay! Glad to hear thatπ
Thanks for sharing this! π
I still remember the first time I tried my hands on AWS, I forgot to turn off my EC2 instance and Route53 service. Incurred a bill of around 30$ after a month π€¦π»ββοΈ
I left my RDS instance running and almost got charged $80+π so i speak from experienceπ