How to avoid Huge AWS Bills with AWS Budgets

Опубликовано: 14 Июль 2026
на канале: Ryan H. Lewis
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Nobody likes surprise bills, and AWS's pay-as-you-go model has the unfortunate downside of informing you what you owe after the fact. But, there's an easy way you can avoid costly mistakes and oversights. Setting up budgets using AWS Budgets will make sure you are always aware of how much you owe, and in this video I walk through how to create a budget with AWS Budgets. Watch this video for more details!

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Table of Contents:
0:00 Introduction
0:20 Why you might get a large AWS bill
1:43 Billing Alerts in CloudWatch
2:35 AWS Budgets
3:26 How budgets work
4:41 AWS Budgets demo
5:13 How to create a budget
7:01 Budget vectors and filters
8:32 Budget notifications
9:58 Final thoughts

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