Setup Billing Alerts for AWS Services using CloudWatch

Today we will learn on how to setup billing alerts for AWS Services

AWS CloudWatch service is used to create billing alarms for all the AWS services. Using Cloudwatch, we can monitor the service usage charge per month (e.g.: EC2 estimated charges) and send alert notifications to the specified persons.

Steps:

• Go to Cloudwatch service in AWS
• Create a new billing alarm

• Click "Select metric" under Specify metric and conditions

• Select "Billing" as a metric

• Select "By Service" under billing

• Select the AWS service that you want to monitor
• For e.g.: Amazon EC2

• Under Specify metric and Conditions:
• Threshold type = Static
• Estimated charges = Greater 
• Than = <specify dollar amount limit per month>
• Period = 1 day (this will alert you once per day)

• Click Next

• Under Notification:
• Create new SNS topic
• Specify email id's that you want the subscription to send email
• Create topic

• Give a name to the Alarm

• Click Create Alarm

• Alarm will be created.
• It will send notifications to the email id's specified by asking them to click confirm
• Once email is configured, the alarm is activated