AWS : Setup Cloud Budgets

PAYG Cloud Computing

Pay-as-you-Go (PAYG) computing in cloud has major benefit for not wasting any resources. Since users only pay for services procured.

AWS Billing Dashboard

4 Simple Steps to configure budget in AWS

1. Select Budget type

  • Cost budgets – Plan and monitor cost against specified amount.
  • Usage budgets – Plan and monitor cost against user defined thresholds.
  • Reservation budgets – MOnitor Reserved Instance coverage or utilization associated with users reservation

2. Set budget

3. Configure Alert threshold and set email ID

4. Confirm the budget