Cost monitoring and control - Research and Engineering Studio

Cost monitoring and control

Note

Associating Research and Engineering Studio projects to AWS Budgets is not supported in AWS GovCloud (US).

We recommend creating a budget through AWS Cost Explorer to help manage costs. Prices are subject to change. For full details, see the pricing webpage for each of the AWS services in this product.

To assist with cost tracking, you can associate RES projects to budgets created within AWS Budgets. You will first need to activate the environment tags within the billing cost allocation tags.

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the AWS Billing console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/.

  2. Choose Cost allocation tags.

  3. Search for and select the res:Project and res:EnvironmentName tags.

  4. Choose Activate.

Activate cost allocation tags
Note

It may take up to a day for RES tags to appear following deployment.

To create a budget for RES resources:

  1. From the Billing console, choose Budgets.

  2. Choose Create a budget.

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

  4. Under Budget types, choose Cost budget - Recommended.

  5. Choose Next.

    Choose budget type

  6. Under Details, enter a meaningful Budget name for your budget to distinguish it from other budgets in your account. For example, <EnvironmentName>-<ProjectName>-<BudgetName>.

  7. Under Set budget amount, enter the amount budgeted for your project.

  8. Under Budget scope, choose Filter specific AWS cost dimensions.

  9. Choose Add filter.

  10. Under Dimension, choose Tag.

  11. Under Tag, select res:Project.

    Note

    It may take up to two days for tags and values to become available. You can create a budget once the project name becomes available.

  12. Under Values, select the project name.

  13. Choose Apply filter to attach the project filter to the budget.

  14. Choose Next.

    Set budget scope

  15. (Optional.) Add an alert threshold.

  16. Choose Next.

  17. (Optional.) If an alert was configured, use Attach actions to configure desired actions with the alert.

  18. Choose Next.

  19. Review the budget configuration and confirm the correct tag was set under Additional budget parameters.

  20. Choose Create budget.

Now that the budget has been created, you can enable the budget for projects. To turn on budgets for a project, see Edit a project. Virtual desktops will be blocked from launching if the budget is exceeded. If the budget is exceeded while a desktop is launched, the desktop will continue to operate.

Budget exceeded

If you need to change your budget, return to the console to edit the budget amount. It may take up to fifteen minutes for the change to take effect within RES. Alternatively, you may edit a project to disable a budget.