AWS Budget- Save Your Budget on AWS Services.

Sudheer
3 min readJul 23, 2023

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AWS (Amazon Web Services) Budgets is a service provided by Amazon that allows users to set custom cost and usage budgets for their AWS accounts. AWS Budgets enables users to define cost and usage thresholds and receive alerts when their actual usage or spending approaches or exceeds these predefined limits.

AWS Budget: Set custom budgets that alert you when you exceed your budgeted thresholds.

Start tracking your AWS costs and usage.

Once you have a budget created, AWS Budgets allows you to create budgets, forecast spend, and take action on your costs and usage from a single location.

Benefits and features

Create and manage budgets

Set custom cost and usage budgets to easily manage your AWS spend. Monitor your budget status from the AWS Budgets overview.

Refine your budget using filters

Track your cost or usage across multiple dimensions by adding filters related to service, member accounts, Region, tags, and more.

Receive budgets reports

Create and send daily, weekly, or monthly reports to monitor the performance of your AWS Budgets.

Add notifications to your budget

Get notified by email or publish updates to a Slack channel, Amazon Chime room, or Amazon SNS topic of your choice.

Attach actions

Define actions to reduce or prevent unbudgeted cost before it occurs. Decrease the need to monitor and respond to alerts to manage costs.

Steps to Follow for AWS Budget

Step 1: Login to AWS Account and Go to Billing Dashboard

Step 2: Go to Budgets under Cost Management.

Step 3: Click on Create Budget.

Step 4: Under Choose Budget Type, You can choose either Template or Customize.

Under Templates, Choose Monthly cost Budget.

Step 5: Give Budget Name, your budget amount and Email receipt to get notification.

Step 6: Create your budget. Save the Budgets on Your AWS Services.

Budget Created Successfully

Source: AWS Official

Happy Learning…

Thank you.

Sudheer Baraker

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Sudheer
Sudheer

Written by Sudheer

Automation Engineer/AWS DevOps Engineer

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