AWS — Create billing alarm

So, what is a billing alarm!

In a nutshell it’s an alarm you set that alerts you when a bill goes above x amount. But don’t turn it off like an alarm clock!

1. Go to CloudWatch

2. Click on billing then Create alarm

3. Enter the period (check pricing every x period), currency and the value.

4. Click next and create a SNS (Simple Notification Topic) — which is essentially a way for AWS to email you notifications.

Create the new topic, provide the name and email address. This has to be a real email address, as it will ask you to confirm and subscribe to the newly created topic and send the alarm notifications to the email.

5. Click next and add description

6. Click next and review the overview page and create the alarm

That’s it :)