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Reputation: 9714

How to set cutoff for AWS account billing?

In the billing dashboard I have configured alerts to get notified when the cost reaches at a certain amount.

Along with alert I would also like to setup a cutoff so that the cost never goes beyond a certain amount. Where can I do this setting?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 440

Answers (1)

Chris Williams
Chris Williams

Reputation: 35238

You cannot stop from being billed within AWS by selecting a setting, the alert will simply notify you that you have surpassed a threshold.

If you wanted to prevent the billing you should have the alert trigger a Lambda function, this you would have to be developed to terminate resources in your account. Otherwise you will need to manually go through your AWS account and manually delete resources.

A good tip would be to set the threshold lower than your budget so that you can be notified ahead of time and react before it exceeds this.

Upvotes: 2

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