Lab complete!
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We will create a monthly EC2 actual cost budget, which will notify us if/when the actual costs of EC2 instances exceeds the specified budgeted amount.
Click Create budget:
Select Cost budget, and click Next:
Enter the following details:
Create a filter to only include EC2 instances in the budget:
Select the filter options:
Finish the budget details:
To create an alert for our new EC2_actual budget select Add an alert threshold:
For Alert #1 select:
Here you can attach actions that can be taken when you budget exceeds its threshold. We will not be attaching any actions for this lab. Select Next to move to the next page:
Review the configuration, and click Create budget:
You can see the current amount exceeds the new EC2_actual budget (you may need to refresh your browser):
You will receive an email similar to the previous budget within a few minutes.
You have created an actual cost budget for EC2 usage. You can extend this budget by adding specific filters such as linked accounts, tags or instance types. You can also create budgets for services other than EC2.
Now that you have completed this lab, make sure to update your Well-Architected review if you have implemented these changes in your workload.
Click here to access the Well-Architected Tool