Monitoring costs in the could

Billing Alarms in CloudWatch

• Billing data metric is stored in CloudWatch us-east-1

• Billing data are for overall worldwide AWS costs

• It’s for actual cost, not for projected costs

• Intended a simple alarm (not as powerful as AWS Budgets)

AWS Budgets

• Create a budget and send alarms when costs exceed the budget

• 4 types of budgets: Usage, Cost, Reservation, Savings Plans

• For Reserved Instances (RI) • Track utilization • Supports EC2, ElastiCache, RDS, Redshift

• Up to 5 SNS notifications per budget

• Can filter by Service, Linked Account, Tag, Purchase Option, Instance Type, Region, Availability Zone, API Operation, etc...

• Same options as AWS Cost Explorer!

• 2 budgets are free, then $0.02/day/budget