I cannot find on the AWS docs the price of Enabling the Billing Alert.
Is it just free? If not, can someone point me to the relevant AWS documentation?
Sorry for this non-technical question. Let me know if I should ask this on another SO page.
Excerpt from this link:
You can use up to 10 alarms and 1,000 e-mail notifications free each month as part of the AWS Free Tier, and most customers will be able to use billing alerts at no additional charge.
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I have a use case, a user with several AWS accounts. Not all accounts/email addresses are known, not documented, change of staff. There is a bank card that is being billed. How can I determine which AWS account is generating the billing ?
Thanks for any assistance.
Take a look at the AWS Cost Explorer it allows you to see detailed information about the costs. You can see what services generated how much costs, on which account, in which region and much more with filter options.
There should be a Master / Management account if they are using AWS Organizations, and this will be able to see all child accounts through the AWS Cost Explorer Ausgefuchster mentioned.
I'd want to automate aws billing.
In my situation, every month from 1 to 5th data I get an aws bill pdf and share it with the finance department for payment.
How can I automate this or use aws lambda to do this?
in short, I want to send a billing pdf in the root account to some limited mail address on a particular date.
There's no need for any sort of programming solution here. You just need to add a billing contact email address in your root account.
I got a warning about suspicious activity in my GCP billing account. GCP asked me to verify my payment method (credit card) by uploading the photo of the credit card and government issued ID card. I uploaded them then my account got suspended without reason. Anybody knows about this or knows who should I contact regarding this issue?
Thanks a lot
Unfortunately, StackOverflow community can do nothing with issues related to billing.
Please have a look at the documentation Cloud Billing Support:
All Google Cloud accounts get free billing and payments support. This
page tells you how to contact Cloud Billing Support if you need help
with your Cloud Billing account, and shows you where to get more
information about managing your billing account.
Cloud Billing Support is available in several regions and languages.
For information about support availability, see Google Cloud Support
Plans.
To solve your issue you should contact Google Cloud Support, it's free of charge for all billing related questions as a part of Basic support plan.
How can I use the Google Cloud Billing APIs to retrieve my total expected bill / accumulated bill so far?
Is there an API call that simply returns the cost so far for a certain billing account?
Or alternatively, a combination of calls - one for retrieving the usage data and the other with the prices for the various Google Cloud services - to calculate the costs myself?
Thank you
Have you try Google Cloud Billing Report ?
https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/03/understand-your-spending-at-a-glance-with-Google-Cloud-Billing-reports-beta.html
Yes, there is an API to accomplish what you want.
You can control costs, track expenses and create alerts to notify billing administrators following this guide
Based on the comment below Alexandre answer, You can get programmatic budget notifications using Google Cloud Billing API setting up budget notifications as described in this tutorial.
I suggest you to start trying the quickstart, which performs simpler API calls.
I am wondering if it is possible to see billing information through the Amazon SDK/APIs. Specifically, I want to see how much EC2 instances are costing the account. Is it feasible to have it break down by user if it is an IAM account, or breakdown by account if you are using consolidated billing?
I have seen ways of doing this by either creating an S3 bucket to have billing info dumped into, or using CloudWatch APIs which require the user to pay. Is there an easier way to get EC2 billing information through just API calls or the SDK?
Billing information can be provided as records in an Amazon S3 bucket. You can then analyze the content of those files to obtain the information you list.
It is not possible to obtain the billing records themselves via an API call.
See: Cost and Usage Report
(The older Detailed Billing Report is scheduled to be retired.)