tag-based cost alerts

Question

Good morning everyone, I have a question related to the following services: cloudwatch, cost explorer and SNS. I have been asked to generate cost alerts based on a filter by project tags, the purpose is that, when a certain project exceeds a certain amount of money , a cloudwatch alert is triggered that notifies through SNS that a certain project exceeds the defined threshold, my question is, is it possible to do this with cloudwatch?, if so, how should the alert be configured? Thanks in advance everyone!

Accepted Answer

Hello! I think you might be looking for AWS Budgets- https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/aws-budgets/. This should have the functionality you're looking for all pre-built. You can create a budget based on the tag- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/latest/userguide/budgets-create-filters.html.

Happy building!

Answer

Your best bet would be AWS Budgets which helps you monitor costs and usage (daily,monthly, quarterly or annually) and you can create scheduled reports and finally you can create custom actions to run automatically to respond to thresholds that you need based on tags.

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