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safetyduck
safetyduck

Reputation: 6874

amazon ec2 set max cost per month

I see a lot of questions that are similar but no direct answer. I just want to play around with an instance to run some light hourly data aggregation and familiarize myself with the ec2 instances. I feel like I do not understand what my risk is however. Is there a way to set my max cost per month? I don't care if my instances get shutdown when the cost is hit, I just want limited liability for my experiment.

Also, running some monitoring of logs myself is not really a solution I will undertake for such a simple experiment. I just want to know if there is some easy way of limiting liability.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 991

Answers (1)

datasage
datasage

Reputation: 19573

Short answer is no, you wont be able to set a cap and stop services.

You can however easily monitor your costs. Starting with billing alerts. Account activity shows you a nearly realtime accounting of the costs you have occurred so far.

Upvotes: 1

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