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# 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)

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### 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