Hey learners, you have been using aws services atleast for last 45 days. Have you ever wondered what happen if for any service is charging you bill continously and you don't know till you loose all your pocket money ?
Hahahaha😁, Well! we, as a responsible community ,always try to make it under free tier , but it's good to know and setup something , which will inform you whenever bill touches a Threshold.
Amazon CloudWatch monitors your Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources and the applications you run on AWS in real time. You can use CloudWatch to collect and track metrics, which are variables you can measure for your resources and applications.
Read more about cloudwatch from the official documentation here
Amazon Simple Notification Service is a notification service provided as part of Amazon Web Services since 2010. It provides a low-cost infrastructure for mass delivery of messages, predominantly to mobile users.
Read more about it here
- Create a CloudWatch alarm that monitors your billing and send an email to you when a it reaches $2.
(You can keep it for your future use)
- Delete your billing Alarm that you created now.
(Now you also know how to delete as well. )
Need help with Cloudwatch? Check out this official documentation for assistance.
Keep growing your AWS knowledge💥🙌
Happy Learning! :)