AWS Budgets
Set custom budgets to track your cost and usage from the simplest to the most complex use cases.
Overview
AWS Budgets allows you to set custom budgets to track your cost and usage. You can choose to be alerted by email or SNS notification when actual or forecasted cost and usage exceed your budget threshold. With AWS Budgets Actions, you can also configure specific actions to respond automatically to reduce unintentional over-spending.
✨ Key Features
- Cost, usage, RI, and Savings Plans budgets
- Custom alert thresholds (actual and forecasted)
- Email and Amazon SNS notifications
- Automated actions (e.g., apply IAM policy, stop EC2/RDS instances)
- Budget reports
🎯 Key Differentiators
- Native AWS integration
- Proactive alerting and automated actions
- Free to get started
Unique Value: Provides a native, automated way to control AWS costs by setting budgets and triggering actions when thresholds are breached.
🎯 Use Cases (4)
✅ Best For
- Setting monthly cost budgets with fixed targets.
- Creating usage budgets to stay within service limits.
- Tracking RI or Savings Plans utilization and coverage.
💡 Check With Vendor
Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:
- Detailed cost analysis and visualization (better handled by Cost Explorer)
- Multi-cloud cost management
🏆 Alternatives
Unlike analytical tools, AWS Budgets is focused on proactive control and automated responses to spending, making it a crucial tool for governance.
💻 Platforms
🔌 Integrations
🛟 Support Options
- ✓ Email Support
- ✓ Live Chat
- ✓ Phone Support
- ✓ Dedicated Support (Business, Enterprise On-Ramp, or Enterprise Support plan tier)
🔒 Compliance & Security
💰 Pricing
Free tier: Your first two action-enabled budgets are free.
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