For anyone starting new on Amazon they might want to start with a small aws budget on a their free trial to learn amazon. Even if you are a small to large company you will want to have a budget for your cloud services.
Amazon provides an easy way to alert and to create a budget for your cloud.
Lets get started on how to create a budget
Step by Step – How to create a AWS Budget in Amazon Web Services
First login to
amazon console and then click on my account and you will see My Billing Dashboard in the drop down like below.
![](http://taswar.zeytinsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/aws-my-billing-dashboard-menu.png)
My Billing Dashboard Menu
Once inside the page, on the left hand you will see the menu for the section, click on budget.
![aws-my-billing-budget-menu](http://taswar.zeytinsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/aws-my-billing-budget-menu.png)
aws-my-billing-budget-menu
Then click on the Create a Budget blue button.
![aws-budgets](http://taswar.zeytinsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/aws-budgets.png)
create aws budgets
I will create a cost budget so I have selected the cost budget and clicked on Set your budget
![aws-cost-budget](http://taswar.zeytinsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/aws-cost-budget.png)
aws-cost-budget
Then I have to set a name for the budget below I have set it as aws testing budget, it is set up as monthly and recurring.
![aws-set-your-budget](http://taswar.zeytinsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/aws-set-your-budget.png)
aws-set-your-budget
I have set it as a fixed budget with a 10 dollar limit.
![aws-fixed-budget-amount](http://taswar.zeytinsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/aws-fixed-budget-amount.png)
aws-fixed-budget-amount
Afterwards you can click on Configure Alerts to configure when to alert you when the budget is close to a certain percentage or amount
![aws-config-budget-alerts](http://taswar.zeytinsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/aws-config-budget-alerts.png)
aws-config-budget-alerts
I have set up the alert to 10% of the amount which is just 1 dollar, so aws will notify me on the email provided below when I am at 1 dollar
![aws-budget-alert](http://taswar.zeytinsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/aws-budget-alert.png)
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It will then confirm your budget on a page and you can see the details in a table
![aws-budget-table](http://taswar.zeytinsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/aws-budget-table.png)
aws-budget-table
Summary
I hope this helps you in setting up your budget in aws when you are trying out aws or when you want to set up a budget for your company.
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