Comment by jpalomaki
1 year ago
"AWS Budgets information is updated up to three times a day. Updates typically occur 8–12 hours after the previous update" [1]
Something based on this could be definitely better than nothing, but might also give false impression of safety.
[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/latest/userguide...
It's something. I started looking into the budget alert docs and it does use SNS so it should be easy to have something polling that queue and respond in any way necessary.
I'm imagining an alert to the on-call team, and a soft shutdown until the on-call team can figure out the next step.
If it can save a few thousand dollars, it's worth it. Each business must make their own estimate of course.