Creating a usage budget

To create a usage budget

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the AWS Cost Management console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/home.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Budgets.

3. At the top of the page, choose Create budget.

4. Under Budget setup, choose Customize (advanced).

5. Under Budget types, choose Usage budget. Then, choose Next.

6. Under Details, for Budget name, enter the name of your budget. Your budget name must be unique within your account. It can contain A-Z, a-z, spaces, and the following characters:

   _.:/=+-%@

7. Under Choose what you’re budgeting against, for Budget against, choose Usage type groups or Usage types. A usage type group is a collection of usage types that have the same unit of measure. For example, resources that measure usage by the hour is one usage type group.

   • For Usage type groups, choose the unit of measurement and the applicable service usage that you want the budget to monitor.

   • For Usage types, choose the specific service usage measurements that you want the budget to monitor.

8. Under Set budget amount, for Period, choose how often you want the budget to reset the actual and forecasted usage. Select Daily for every day, Monthly for every month, Quarterly for every three months, or Annually for every year.

   Note

   With a Monthly or Quarterly budget period, you can set future budgeted amounts using the budget planning feature.

9. For Budget renewal type, choose Recurring budget for a budget that resets at the end of each budget period. Or, choose Expiring budget for a one-time budget that doesn't reset after the given budget period.

10. Choose the start date or period to begin tracking against your budgeted amount. For an Expiring budget, choose the end date or period for the budget to end on.

    All budget times are in the UTC format.

11. For Budgeting method, select the way that you want your budget amount to be determined each budget period:

    • Fixed: Set one amount to monitor every budget period.

    • Planned: Set different amounts to monitor each budget period.

    • Auto-adjusting: Set your budget amount to be adjusted automatically based on your usage pattern over a time range that you specify.

    For more information about each method, see Budget methods

12. (Optional) Under Budget scope, for Filters, choose Add filter to apply one or more of the available filters. Your choice of budget type determines the set of filters that's displayed on the console.

    Note

    You can't use the Linked account filter within a linked account.

13. Choose Next.

14. Choose Add an alert threshold.

15. Under Set alert threshold, for Threshold, enter the amount that must be reached for you to be notified. This can be either an absolute value or a percentage. For example, say you have a budget of 200 hours. To be notified at 160 hours (80% of your budget), enter 160 for an absolute budget or 80 for a percentage budget.

    Next to the amount, choose Absolute value to be notified when your usage exceeds the threshold amount. Or, choose % of budgeted amount to be notified when your usage exceeds the threshold percentage.

    Next to the threshold, choose Actual to create an alert for actual usage. Or, choose Forecasted to create an alert for forecasted usage.

16. (Optional) Under Notification preferences, for Email recipients, enter the email addresses that you want the alert to notify. Separate multiple email addresses with commas. A notification can be sent to a maximum of 10 email addresses.

17. (Optional) Under Notification preferences, for Amazon SNS Alerts, enter the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for your Amazon SNS topic. For instructions on how to create a topic, see Creating an Amazon SNS topic for budget notifications.

    Important

    After you create a budget with Amazon SNS notifications, Amazon SNS sends a confirmation email to the email addresses that you specified. The subject line is AWS Notification - Subscription Confirmation. The recipient must choose Confirm subscription in the confirmation email to receive future notifications.

18. (Optional) Under Notification preferences, for AWS Chatbot Alerts, you can choose to configure AWS Chatbot to send budget alerts to an Amazon Chime or Slack chat room. You configure these alerts on the AWS Chatbot console.

19. Choose Next.

20. (Optional) For Attach actions, you can configure an action that AWS Budgets performs on your behalf when the alert threshold is exceeded. For more information and instructions, see To configure a budget action.

21. Choose Next.

    Note

    To proceed, you must configure at least one of the following parameters for each alert:

    • An email recipient for notifications

    • An Amazon SNS topic for notifications

    • A budget action

22. Review your budget settings, and then choose Create budget.