Setting up billing alerts in AWS - Interactive Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to create a billing alarm that triggers when the estimated charges exceed $100.

AWS

AlarmName: "BillingAlarm"
MetricName: "EstimatedCharges"
Namespace: "AWS/Billing"
Statistic: "Maximum"
Period: 21600
EvaluationPeriods: 1
Threshold: [1]
ComparisonOperator: "GreaterThanThreshold"

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A50

B100

C200

D10

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Setting the threshold too low or too high.

Confusing threshold with evaluation periods.

The threshold should be set to 100 to alert when charges exceed $100.

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medium

Complete the code to specify the currency unit for the billing metric.

AWS

MetricName: "EstimatedCharges"
Namespace: "AWS/Billing"
Dimensions:
  - Name: "Currency"
    Value: [1]

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AGBP

BEUR

CJPY

DUSD

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Using a currency code not supported by AWS billing.

Leaving the currency dimension empty.

The billing alerts typically use USD as the currency unit.

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hard

Fix the error in the alarm action to notify the billing team via SNS topic ARN.

AWS

AlarmActions:
  - [1]

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A"arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:123456789012:BillingAlerts"

BBillingAlerts

C"BillingAlerts"

Darn:aws:sns:us-east-1:123456789012:BillingAlerts

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Using just the topic name without ARN.

Missing quotes around the ARN string.

The alarm action requires the full SNS topic ARN as a quoted string.

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hard

Fill both blanks to complete the CloudFormation snippet for billing alarm with SNS notification.

AWS

Resources:
  BillingAlarm:
    Type: "AWS::CloudWatch::Alarm"
    Properties:
      AlarmName: "BillingAlarm"
      MetricName: "EstimatedCharges"
      Namespace: "AWS/Billing"
      Statistic: "Maximum"
      Period: 21600
      EvaluationPeriods: 1
      Threshold: [1]
      ComparisonOperator: [2]
      AlarmActions:
        - "arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:123456789012:BillingAlerts"

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A100

BGreaterThanThreshold

CLessThanThreshold

D200

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using LessThanThreshold which triggers alert on lower charges.

Setting threshold too high or too low.

The threshold should be 100 and the comparison operator should be GreaterThanThreshold to alert when charges exceed $100.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to complete the billing alert setup with metric dimension and SNS action.

AWS

Resources:
  BillingAlarm:
    Type: "AWS::CloudWatch::Alarm"
    Properties:
      AlarmName: "BillingAlarm"
      MetricName: "EstimatedCharges"
      Namespace: "AWS/Billing"
      Dimensions:
        - Name: [1]
          Value: [2]
      Threshold: 100
      ComparisonOperator: "GreaterThanThreshold"
      AlarmActions:
        - [3]

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A"Currency"

B"USD"

C"arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:123456789012:BillingAlerts"

D"EstimatedCharges"

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using wrong dimension name or value.

Not quoting the SNS topic ARN.

The dimension name is "Currency" with value "USD" and the alarm action is the SNS topic ARN as a quoted string.