For accessing the Cost Explorer and the Budget services in AWS is requested you login in the AWS Console with the Administrator user.
We click on the AWS Console Home button, in the screen upper left corner.
We can verify the AWS Cost and Usage:
We can expand this widget to see the cost details
Also we can navigate to the "Go to Billing and Cost Management"
If we click on the "Cost Explorer" we can see in detail the AWS Services incurred cost
We also can fix the Cost date range
After setting the cost during december 2023 we select the option for detailing the daily cost
Now we also include the filter to show the cost splitted by AWS services
You can also dowload an Excel file with the the graph daily cost information shown above.
Go to Cost Explorer, scroll down and press the Download as CSV button
If we would like to receive an e-mail warning about we are incurring a cost above a predetermined amount, we can follow the following steps
We navigate to the AWS Billing and Cost Management service
We select in the left menu the Budgets option, and we press the Create a budget button
We select the Monthly cost budget, for setting the maximum amount of money we would like to spend during the month.
We set the budget name, the maximum amout of money to spend and the e-mails to receive the warning message when reaching the thershold
Verify the created budget alert
