Create Budgets in AWS Budgets using Excel

Common Challenges

Finance, IT, operations typically dont want users going into the portal to do work

• But you still to need to create a budget in AWS to track your spend, get notified, and detect anomalies

How to use Excel to enter, then create Budgets in AWS

Assumptions: Already have python, and AWS SDK Boto3 installed on laptop

• Download github repo or clone to desktop
• Install libraries in requirements.txt
• Csv should be in same directory, if not, move to same directory where the code is stored
• Open excel, enter your data (test data is fine). In this example, I used filters by service. You could set this up by Tag, to encompass a product or category of products.
• Open the create-budget.py code, and update account with your information
• Update email address
• Save
• Run python code [Budgets API links](Budgets — Boto3 Docs 1.25.2 documentation)
• Check results in AWS Console

Link to Demo in youtube

• Demo AWS Budgets with CSV

Coming soon

• Create buget from csv file that gets uploaded to S3, which operationally a way to handle budget creation, and updates on an ongoing basis without going in the portal, and or learning skills (just use excel).
• Budget pipeline deployment integration.
• A S3 trigger will run lambda function (serverless compute in the cloud), then create AWS budget.
• Move upload file from bucket to a processed bucket in S3.

Remember this is a POC, only to be used for testing

• I excluded logging
• I excluded error handling
• I excluded Excel data validation