How to Create a CloudWatch Billing Alarm to Monitor AWS Charges

How to Create a CloudWatch Billing Alarm to Monitor AWS Charges

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According to AWS documentation, you can monitor your estimated AWS charges by using Amazon CloudWatch. When you enable the monitoring of estimated charges for your AWS account, the estimated charges are calculated and sent several times daily to CloudWatch as metric data.

Billing metric data is stored in the US East (N. Virginia) Region and represents worldwide charges. This data includes the estimated charges for every service in AWS that you use, in addition to the estimated overall total of your AWS charges.

The alarm triggers when your account billing exceeds the threshold you specify. It triggers only when actual billing exceeds the threshold. It doesn't use projections based on your usage so far in the month.

If you create a billing alarm at a time when your charges have already exceeded the threshold, the alarm goes to the ALARM state immediately.

To enable the monitoring of estimated charges:

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[shahmohammadmahsanulislamn]

Perfectly explained. Thank you very much 😀😀!!!! Wish you the best.

[farhodotaboev]

I believe there is a mistake when you say, the alarm goes off if the charge is more than $10 for 6 hours. Actually, the EstimatedCharge is calculated on a monthly bases and accumulated. So, this alarm will go off, whenever the monthly charge exceeds $10 for any given 6 hours.

[cloudflyers]

Baba, thanks a lot. your explanations dey clear. I for like talk with you abeg. I'm in the cloud and would like to bounce off a few ideas with you if you don't mind. Thanks.

[wrohit]

What is the pricing outside of free tier?

[sachi]

Setting cloud watch service does it comes in free tier?

[lokeshwarnsamudralan]

when i created the alarm In the cloud watch it's showing as status as Insufficient data...what to do?..please solve my query