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Create a Billing Alarm

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  • can monitor your estimated AWS charges by using Amazon CloudWatch
  • estimated charges are calculated and sent several times daily to CloudWatch as metric data.
  • Billing metric data is stored in the US East (N. Virginia) Region
  • Data includes estimated charges for every AWS service used
  • alarm triggers when your account billing exceeds the threshold

To enable the monitoring of estimated charges

  • Open the Billing and Cost Management console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/.
  • In the navigation pane, choose Billing Preferences.
  • Choose Receive Billing Alerts.
  • Choose Save preferences.

To create a billing alarm using the CloudWatch console

  • Open the CloudWatch console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/.
  • If necessary, change the Region to US East (N. Virginia). Billing metric data is stored in this Region and represents worldwide charges.
  • In the navigation pane, choose Alarms, Create Alarm.
  • Choose Select metric. In the All metrics tab, choose Billing, Total Estimated Charge.
  • Select the check box next to EstimatedCharges, and choose Select metric.
  • Under Conditions, choose Static.
  • For Whenever EstimatedCharges is, choose Greater.
  • For than, enter the monetary amount (for example, 200) that must be exceeded to trigger the alarm.
  • Choose Next.
  • Under Notification, select an SNS topic to notify when the alarm is in ALARM state.
  • To have the alarm send multiple notifications for the same alarm state or for different alarm states, choose Add notification.
  • When finished, choose Next.
  • Enter a name and description for the alarm. The name must contain only ASCII characters. Then choose Next.
  • Under Preview and create, confirm that the information and conditions are what you want, then choose Create alarm.

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