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Using AWS Budgets

Using AWS Budgets - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Using AWS Budgets

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- [Instructor] An essential requirement for organizations using cloud services such as AWS is to plan and analyze their cloud costs. AWS provides many tools to calculate, forecast, and analyze your spending. AWS Budgets is a service that allows you to track your cost and usage and take action using available data. With AWS Budgets, you can set a cost budget with a fixed or variable target amount and be alerted for actual and forecast expense. Examples of budgets that you can create include cost budgets, use this to plan how much you want to spend on a service. Usage budgets, use this to plan how much you want to use one or more services. Reserved instances utilization budgets. Use this to define a utilization threshold and receive alerts when your reserved instances usage falls below that threshold. This is useful in identifying unused or underutilized reserved instances. Reserved instances coverage budgets. Use this…

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