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Management

AWS Budgets

  • Timebilled
  • Bytesnot billed
  • Callsbilled

In one line

Watching spend is free. Budgets that take automated actions are the paid tier.

What gets missed

Monitoring budgets are unlimited. After the first two action-enabled budgets you pay per budget per day, no matter how many actions each one carries, and delivered budget reports bill per report.

Find it on your bill

Filter Cost Explorer or your Cost and Usage Report by these usage types. A usage type with no region prefix means us-east-1.

  • BudgetsUsage
  • ActionEnabledBudgetsUsage
  • BudgetsReports

Bills the same way

These services turn exactly the same meters, so what you learn here transfers.