AWS budgets

  • create budges and send alarms when costs exceeds 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, tag, purchase options, instance type, regions, AZs…
  • same optinos as AWS cost explorer
  • 2 budgets are free, then $0.02/day/budget