100 Days of AWS — Day 11 — Using AWS CloudWatch to create a Billing alarm

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Welcome to Day 11 of 100 Days of AWS. The topic for today is using AWS CloudWatch creating a billing alarm.

You can monitor your AWS account charges by setting up a CloudWatch alarm. The alarm will trigger once your billing threshold exceeds.

These are the steps you need to follow

Enable Billing Alert

• The first step is enable the billing alerts so that you can monitor the estimated AWS charges.

NOTE: After you enable the billing alert it will take 15 minutes before you can view the billing data and set billing alarms.

• Go to the AWS Billing console https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/ . You must be in US East(N. Virginia) region and signed as a root user or IAM user must have permission to view billing information.
• Choose Billing preferences and then click on Receive Billing Alerts and then Save preferences.

Create CloudWatch Billing Alarm

• Go to CloudWatch Console https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/ (make sure you are in N. Virginia region as all the Billing metric data is stored in this region)
• Click on All alarms and Create alarm

• Choose Select metric, under All metric tab, choose Billing.

• Under Billing, Total Estimated Charge

• Select metrics(USD) and Graphed metrics

• Under Graphed metrics, click on Select metric at the bottom of the screen

• Under threshold value put 5 or depend upon your requirement

• Under Notification you can either select the existing SNS topic or Create a new topic. Click Next at the bottom of the screen.

• Give your alarm some meaningful name and click Next. Click on Create Alarm.

• Now as soon as my AWS account charge exceed above $5 I will receive a billing alert.