Exercise 3.2 – Setting up a billing alarm
When you configure a billing alarm, you define a dollar amount as a threshold value as your maximum budget. If the total charges on your AWS account cross this value, you are alerted with a notification and can take remedial action.
As previously discussed, this training guide offers several hands-on labs and exercises to enable you to gain real-world hands-on experience in configuring various services to host your workloads in the cloud. Most of the labs will fall within the free tier, except for a few that may incur very minimal charges. We indicate the labs that may incur such charges. It is also important to terminate any labs you complete to ensure you do not forget about them.
To complete all exercises in this training guide, we recommend you set a billing alarm of USD 10, although you can choose any value you are comfortable with. Should you exceed this dollar amount, you will be alerted with a notification via email to...