Exercise 15.1 – setting up cost budgets on AWS
In this exercise, you will create a total monthly cost budget for your workloads. This will allow you to monitor your spending and avoid unintentional cost overruns:
- Log in to the AWS Management Console using the credentials of the IAM user Alice.
- Search for
AWS Budgetsfrom the top search bar on the console screen, and navigate to the AWS Budgets console page. - From the right-hand pane, click on the Create a budget button.
- Next, from the list of Budget types, select Cost budget – Recommended.
- Click the Next button in the bottom-right corner of the page.
- In the Set budget amount pane, configure the following:
- Set the period to Monthly.
- Select Recurring budget.
- Set the start month of your choice.
- Select the Fixed option under Choose how to budget.
- Next, enter your budget amount. I have set mine to $20 as per the following screenshot:
Figure 15.6 – AWS Budgets – setting up monthly cost budgets...