CloudShell AWS Cost Management

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Starting with CloudShell Version 7.1, you can manage the deployment of AWS EC2 instances directly via CloudShell. To facilitate your AWS budget and cost management activities, AWS EC2 instances deployed via CloudShell Apps are preconfigured, by design, with the following tags: Blueprint, CreatedBy, Domain, Name, Owner, and ReservationId.
For example:

As displayed in the image above, each tag has a Key and Value. The key is constant and does not change, whereas the value can change between each instance.

The Tags

• Blueprint: The name of the reserved Blueprint. For example: Quali AWS.
• CreatedBy: Creator of the instance (user, CloudShell). Instances that are created by CloudShell have the “Cloudshell” value.
• Domain: The CloudShell domain in which the reservation exists.
• Name: The name of the AWS EC2 instance. For example, Linux AMI i-4v97ds9da98e73.
• Owner: The owner of the reservation.
• ReservationId: The reservation’s ID. For example, 7a050dd5-d600-44b6-96e3-ba1c6778e37d.

Creating budgets

Budgets are your way to manage your CloudShell AWS costs. You can find budgets under your AWS account.

To create a budget:

Step 1: Click your account name, from the dropdown list, select Billing & Cost Management.

Step 2: On the Dashboard, from the left pane, select Budgets.

Step 3: Click Create Budget.

The Create budget is displayed. Here you can customize your budget as you see fit.

Step 4: Customize the budget as appropriate. You can select the name, start and end dates, monthly amount, and notifications.

Note: The Include costs related to and Notifications options are detailed in the following sections.

Include costs related to

This option enables you to select the main type of budget you are creating. For CloudShell budgets, select the Tag option.

To specify the budget type:

Step 1: From the Include costs related to dropdown list, select Tag.

Step 2: Select the tag for which to create a budget

For example,

• For the broadest budget, select the CreatedBy tag with the value “Cloudshell”, and specify an amount.
• To limit specific users, select the Owner tag and specify the owner for whom to create a budget.
• To limit the number of times a blueprint can be reserved, select the Blueprint tag and select a specific blueprint.
• To limit the number of AWS instances that can be created per domain, select the Domain tag and select a certain domain

Notifications

You can configure AWS to send alerts to specific recipients when your budget exceeds a selected amount of actual or forecasted (using Amazon’s tools) costs.

To configure notifications:

Step 1: From the Notify me when dropdown list, select whether you’d like to be notified when costs exceed an Actual amount or a Forecasted amount.

Step 2: Enter the percentage of the cost at which you’d like to be notified.

For example, if you selected a Monthly Amount of $10,000 for your CloudShell AWS EC2 activity, and you’d like to be notified at 70% of the budget, enter 70 (note that the value is a percentage and not absolute).

Step 3: Specify the email addresses of the recipients, separated by a comma.

Step 4: Click Create.

For additional information about budget creation, visit http://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/budgets-create.html

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 Naama Gonczarowski (Naama.G) - 08/01/2016 09:53 AM

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