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Cloud Computing · Foundational

AWS Budgets

AWS service that sets custom cost, usage, reservation or Savings Plans budgets and alerts or acts when thresholds are exceeded.

Definition

AWS Budgets tracks actual or forecasted cost and usage against budgets and sends alerts via email or SNS. Budget actions can apply IAM or SCP policies or stop EC2/RDS instances when a threshold is reached.

Example

An alert emails the team when forecasted monthly spend exceeds 80 percent of a $5,000 budget.

Exam tip

Budgets is the answer for proactive alerts on spending; it can alert on forecasted, not just actual, costs.

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