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AWS COST MANAGEMENT


USER GUIDE

 * What is AWS Cost Management?
 * Getting started
 * AWS Cost Explorer
    * Enabling Cost Explorer
       * Controlling access for Cost Explorer
   
    * Getting started with Cost Explorer
    * Exploring your data using Cost Explorer
       * Using the Cost Explorer chart
          * Modifying your chart
             * Filtering data
             * Choosing advanced options
         
          * Reading the Cost Explorer data table
          * Forecasting
   
    * Using the AWS Cost Explorer API
       * Best practices for the AWS Cost Explorer API

 * Reports
    * Using the default Cost Explorer reports
    * Saving reports and results
       * Saving your configuration
       * Downloading the cost data CSV file
       * Managing your saved Cost Explorer reports

 * AWS Budgets
    * Best practices for AWS Budgets
    * Creating a budget
       * Using a budget template (simplified)
       * Customizing a budget (advanced)
          * Creating a cost budget
          * Creating a usage budget
          * Creating a Savings Plans budget
          * Creating a reservation budget
      
       * Budget methods
       * Budget filters
   
    * Viewing your budgets
    * Editing a budget
    * Downloading a budget
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    * Creating an Amazon SNS topic for budget notifications
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 * Rightsizing Recommendations
    * Understanding your reservations with Cost Explorer
    * RI Recommendations

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       * Troubleshooting
   
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Managing your costs with AWS Budgets - AWS Cost Management
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MANAGING YOUR COSTS WITH AWS BUDGETS

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You can use AWS Budgets to track and take action on your AWS costs and usage.
You can use AWS Budgets to monitor your aggregate utilization and coverage
metrics for your Reserved Instances (RIs) or Savings Plans. If you're new to AWS
Budgets, see Best practices for AWS Budgets.

You can use AWS Budgets to enable simple-to-complex cost and usage tracking.
Some examples include:

 * Setting a monthly cost budget with a fixed target amount to track all costs
   associated with your account. You can choose to be alerted for both actual
   (after accruing) and forecasted (before accruing) spends.

 * Setting a monthly cost budget with a variable target amount, with each
   subsequent month growing the budget target by 5 percent. Then, you can
   configure your notifications for 80 percent of your budgeted amount and apply
   an action. For example, you could automatically apply a custom IAM policy
   that denies you the ability to provision additional resources within an
   account.

 * Setting a monthly usage budget with a fixed usage amount and forecasted
   notifications to help ensure that you are staying within the service limits
   for a specific service. You can also be sure you are staying under a specific
   AWS Free Tier offering.

 * Setting a daily utilization or coverage budget to track your RI or Savings
   Plans. You can choose to be notified through email and Amazon SNS topics when
   your utilization drops below 80 percent for a given day.

AWS Budgets information is updated up to three times a day. Updates typically
occur 8–12 hours after the previous update. Budgets can track your unblended,
amortized, and blended costs. Budgets can include or exclude charges such as
discounts, refunds, support fees, and taxes.

You can create the following types of budgets:

 * Cost budgets – Plan how much you want to spend on a service.

 * Usage budgets – Plan how much you want to use one or more services.

 * RI utilization budgets – Define a utilization threshold and receive alerts
   when your RI usage falls below that threshold. This lets you see if your RIs
   are unused or under-utilized.

 * RI coverage budgets – Define a coverage threshold and receive alerts when the
   number of your instance hours that are covered by RIs fall below that
   threshold. This lets you see how much of your instance usage is covered by a
   reservation.

 * Savings Plans utilization budgets – Define a utilization threshold and
   receive alerts when the usage of your Savings Plans falls below that
   threshold. This lets you see if your Savings Plans are unused or
   under-utilized.

 * Savings Plans coverage budgets – Define a coverage threshold and receive
   alerts when your Savings Plans eligible usage that is covered by Savings
   Plans fall below that threshold. This lets you see how much of your instance
   usage is covered by Savings Plans.

You can set up optional notifications that warn you if you exceed, or are
forecasted to exceed, your budgeted amount for cost or usage budgets. Or if you
fall below your target utilization and coverage for RI or Savings Plans budgets.
You can have notifications sent to an Amazon SNS topic, to an email address, or
to both. For more information, see Creating an Amazon SNS topic for budget
notifications.

If you use consolidated billing in an organization and you own the management
account, you can use IAM policies to control access to budgets by member
accounts. By default, owners of member accounts can create their own budgets but
can't create or edit budgets for other users. You can create roles with
permissions that allow users to create, edit, delete, or read budgets in a
specific account. However, we don't support cross-account usage.

A budget is only visible to users with access to the account that created the
budget, and with access to the budget itself. For example, a management account
can create a budget that tracks a specific member account's cost, but the member
account can only view the same budget if they receive access to the management
account. For more information, see Overview of managing access permissions. For
more information about AWS Organizations, see the AWS Organizations User Guide.

Note

There can be a delay between when you incur a charge and when you receive a
notification from AWS Budgets for the charge. This is due to a delay between
when an AWS resource is used and when that resource usage is billed. You might
incur additional costs or usage that exceed your budget notification threshold
before AWS Budgets can notify you.

Topics

 * Best practices for AWS Budgets
 * Creating a budget
 * Viewing your budgets
 * Editing a budget
 * Downloading a budget
 * Copying a budget
 * Deleting a budget
 * Configuring AWS Budgets actions
 * Creating an Amazon SNS topic for budget notifications
 * Receiving budget alerts in Amazon Chime and Slack

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