Using AWS Budgets
An AWS budget is a tool for tracking a specified set of events so that when a preset threshold is approached or passed, an alert—perhaps an email—is triggered. You can create one of three budget types:
- Cost budget to monitor costs being incurred against your account
- Usage budget to track particular categories of resource consumption
- Reservation budget to help you understand the status of any active EC2, RDS, Redshift, or Elasticache reserve instances you might have
Setting Budgets
The budget setup process has two parts:
- Set the terms of your budget—meaning, what it is that you’re tracking.
- Define how and when you want alerts sent.
Learn more about AWS Budgets