Cloud bill surprised you this month
Budget alerts would have warned you. Always enable them, on every cloud account.
Try this first
- 1AWS Budgets: monthly budget plus alerts at 50, 80 and 100 percent
- 2Azure Cost Management: budget alerts per subscription and resource group
- 3GCP Billing: budget alerts per project, hook to Pub/Sub for automation
- 4Send alerts to a shared inbox or Slack, not one person
When to bring us in
For a runaway resource (mining, leaked key), worth considering a kill-switch via Lambda or Functions.
See also
- Everyone logs in with the AWS root accountRoot is for emergencies and billing. Day-to-day work belongs in IAM users or SSO.
- Every developer has AdministratorAccessAdministratorAccess everywhere is convenient now, painful later. Start with role-based policies.
- Everyone has individual IAM users with their own passwordIdentity Center (formerly AWS SSO) links to your IdP and issues temporary credentials per session.
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