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Budgets Reports - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: AWS: Controlling Cost
Budgets Reports
- [Tutor] So when you're working with cost management, in addition to having intelligently designed reports, cost budgets are another key aspect of working with this. So if I click on budgets, you'll see that I have switched to the billing console. Again, this reflects the UI changes that seem to be occurring as I'm recording this. So we have the cost console and the billing console. So I created a budget in an earlier video around EC2 usage. And if I drill in, I get a report. So I can see that I have an alert because I've had those four instances turned on for a couple of days now and in here, I'm in an alert state and of course I've sent myself an email. So there's an email sitting in my inbox for this demo account warning me about this. Also, you may remember when you set up a budget that you can optionally have an SNS topic and have a notification through Amazon. So you can see here's the budget information and here I…