Billing Quotas Credits for students - Kahuna915/Capstone-Cloud-Integration GitHub Wiki
Aws contains a few different ways to set limits or quotas on how much services can cost, these are some of those ways.
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In setting policies for users you can set them to free tier only so they are not allowed to use any instances that would incur a charge and any instances that do incur a charge would be terminated.
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Alerts can be created that trigger skrips, whos purpose is to stop any instances that have a cost overrun to reduce the amount of unexpected service charges.
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Quotas and restrictions available though the billing console.
Cost Categories: you can set restrictions on different categories of services that you create
| The total number of AWS Cost Categories for a management account | 50 |
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| The number of cost category rules for a cost category (API) | 500 |
| The number of cost category rules for a cost category (UI) | 100 |
| AWS Cost Categories Names | Names must be uniqueCase sensitive |
| AWS Cost Categories value names | Names don't have to be unique |
| The type and number of characters allowed in a AWS Cost Categories name and value name | Numbers: 0-9Unicode lettersSpace, if it's not used at the beginning or end of the nameThe following symbols: _ - |
| The number of split charge rules for a cost category | 10 |