One of the things that prevents a lot of people from exploring AWS is the cost. Some AWS services are very expensive. Accidentally forgetting to cu...
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Great article! I definitely have a lot of horror stories 😂
For those who use Terraform I recently created a module to define budgets and receive the alerts via Slack channel, I will let the link here just in case any of you want to give it a try.
Terraform Registry: registry.terraform.io/modules/rrib...
Github: github.com/rribeiro1/terraform-aws...
Thanks for sharing!
Very good article and timely. This is exactly what we implemented last week after a development lambda running on a schedule went a little rogue writing out 1000s of failed axios error objects to CloudWatch every minute for days. Our CloudWatch bill went from around $8 to $8000. That bill was not a fun thing to wake up to.
You should also checkout and have a play with ACG playground (if you haven't already).
help.acloud.guru/hc/en-us/sections...
I'll be recommending it for most beginners going forward.
Would be cool if AWS offered such functionality...
Check out AWS budgets instead, easier, more info, I've setup a github with a CDK project and deploy stack button with CF template as a starter for those interested:
talkncloud.com/aws-essential-setti...
But, the big, unexpected bill is a right of passage! Love that this is your 2nd post on AWS.
Hopefully not anymore😅 and thank you!
Agreed! And thank you!
Ceora, I think this topic is outdated. In CloudWatch, the billing button does not exist anymore, in the upper left section. I think they took it out.
But I managed to create this functionality using the Budgets feature of the Billing service.
Maybe the Budgets feature didn't exist back when you wrote this article?
This is a great overview. I also work on a product that helps notify you of costs along the way that removes a lot of the management overhead mentioned above. You should check it out - would love to hear what you think! vantage.sh/
Great post! AWS is too easy to leave on and incur an bill.
Thank you!
What's the thought behind using CloudWatch over creating a budget with a threshold?
thanks for sharing.. applied the steps to my account :p
Yay! Glad to hear that😊
Thanks for sharing this! 🎊
I still remember the first time I tried my hands on AWS, I forgot to turn off my EC2 instance and Route53 service. Incurred a bill of around 30$ after a month 🤦🏻♂️
I left my RDS instance running and almost got charged $80+🙃 so i speak from experience😭