Improve Planning and Cost Control With AWS Budgets

This lesson will explain how AWS Budgets can help you manage AWS spend and improve financial planning. 

Learning Objectives

• What the tool is and the benefit it provides
• How to set up a Budget and configure Budgets actions 
• How to send a Budget report 
• And lastly, how to configure and use AWS Cost Anomaly Detection

Intended Audience

This lesson has been created for financial operations professionals interested in controlling AWS costs and for engineering team members who want more visibility into the cost of their environments.

Prerequisites

To get the most out of this lesson, you should have an understanding of the AWS Billing console and AWS Cost Explorer. Additionally, I briefly discuss establishing permissions through IAM and AWS Organizations and use examples referencing Amazon EC2.