How to create budget and billing alerts
- Login to the Billing console:
- From the left pane, click on Budgets -> Create budget:
- Budget Type: Cost
- Name: Monthly budget for account <AWS_Account_ID>
- Note: Replace AWS Account ID with your actual account ID, as appear inside https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/home#/account
- Period: Monthly
- Start date: Leave default settings
- End date: Leave default settings
- Budgeted Amount: Specify here the current account budget
- Aggregate Costs by: Leave default settings
- Include costs related to: Leave default settings
- Notify me when actual costs are greater than 80% of budgeted amount
- Email contacts: Specify here your email address or mailing list
- Click on Create