Ref: https://learn.cantrill.io/courses/1820301/lectures/41301462

• Summary
• Contents:

AWS Free Tier

• Details about AWS Free Tier: https://aws.amazon.com/free/
  • Some services provide free trials, others free-tier for 12 months and others free-tier indefinitely
  • 💡 Since AWS accounts should be disposable, before the year ends, you can close your existing account and create a new one to stay within the 12-month free-tiers
• AWS provides some granular tooling to see what exactly is being consumed by resources at a given time (e.g. AWS Cost Explorer)
• Drop-down menu > Billing and Cost Management > Bills
  • Summary of past bills and billing so far for current month
• Under “Billing Preferences”, check all boxes for convenience:

Create a Cost Budget

• 🔧 AWS Budgets are really effective to monitor your spend and alert you when nearing thresholds
• Drop-down menu > Billing Dashboard > Budgets > Create a Budget
• “Zero spend budget” → very useful when you wish to stay entirely within the free tier
• 💡 Demos and labs in this course always try to stay within the AWS Free Tier so that students don't incur costs. However, if for whatever reason you start to get billed, creating a budget will alert you when that's the case, that way you’ll be reminded to delete the resources that are incurring costs.