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AWS budget and cost management resources

AWS budget and cost management resources

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AWS budget and cost management resources

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- [Instructor] AWS's billing and pricing can get fairly complicated pretty quickly. There's always a tweet or two on my timeline bemoaning a forgotten virtual server that racked up unexpected fees or a surprise $10,000 bill. There are also countless third party billing, cost analysis and budgeting softwares and services available for organizations to take advantage of, to keep their spending in check and to make sure their resource usage is aligned with their spending goals. AWS also has their own services and resources to help tackle the AWS billing and pricing issues, and they have been updating and consolidating different resources to make them more robust and easier to use. Some core resources we will discuss are AWS Budgets, AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Cost and Usage Report or AWS CUR, AWS Billing Conductor and the AWS Pricing Calculator. As the name suggests, AWS Budgets allow you to set up custom budgets to track your AWS resource costs and usage, and send you alerts when you exceed…

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