Smart Cost Management: Creating a Billing Alarm in AWS | Solution Architect Associate SAA C03
Creating a Billing Alarm in AWS | Solution Architect Associate SAA
🧾 AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA) Creating a Billing Alarm in AWS
📘 Topic: Creating a Billing Alarm in AWS
📌 Objective:
This guide will help you create a billing alarm in AWS using Amazon CloudWatch, which will notify you when your monthly AWS charges exceed a specified threshold.
Billing alarms are crucial for:
Cost control
Preventing unexpected charges
Understanding spending trends
🧰 Prerequisites:
Before you begin:
You must have an AWS account.
Your account must be in the US East (N. Virginia) – us-east-1 region (Billing metrics are only available in this region).
You must enable billing alerts for your account (a one-time step).
You need access to CloudWatch and Billing & Cost Management services.
🧠 Exam Tip (SAA-C03):
Billing alarms appear frequently in scenario-based questions.
Always remember that billing m…
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