Quotas and restrictions - AWS Billing and Cost Management
BudgetsBudget reportsAWS Cost CategoriesCost ExplorerPurchase ordersAWS Cost Anomaly DetectionAdvance Pay

Quotas and restrictions

The following table describes the current quotas, restrictions, and naming constraints within AWS Billing and Cost Management.

Budgets

The number of free budgets allowed for an account

2

The total number of budgets allowed for a management account

20,000

The number and type of characters that are allowed in a budget name

  • 0-9

  • A-Z and a-z

  • Space

  • The following symbols: _.:/=+-%@

Budget reports

The maximum number of budget reports allowed

50

The maximum number of budgets allowed in a budget report

50

The maximum number of email recipients allowed in a budget report

50

AWS Cost Categories

The total number of AWS Cost Categories for a management account 50
The number of cost category rules for a cost category (API) 500
The number of cost category rules for a cost category (UI) 100

Names

  • Names must be unique

  • Case sensitive
value names Names don't have to be unique

The type and number of characters allowed in a name and value name

  • Numbers: 0-9

  • Unicode letters

  • Space, if it's not used at the beginning or end of the name

  • The following symbols: _ -
The number of split charge rules for a cost category 10

Cost Explorer

The maximum number of reports that you can save for an account 50
The maximum number of filters in the GetCostAndUsage operation (API) 100

Purchase orders

The type of characters that are allowed in a purchase order ID

  • A-Z and a-z

  • Space

  • The following symbols: _.:/=+-%@
The number of characters allowed in a purchase order ID 100
The number of line items allowed for a purchase order 100

AWS Cost Anomaly Detection

The maximum number of monitors that you can create for an AWS service monitor type

1 monitor for each account

The maximum number of monitors that you can create for other monitor types (member account, cost category, cost allocation tag) 100 total monitors for each management account
Unsupported services

  • AWS Marketplace

  • AWS Support

  • WorkSpaces

  • Cost Explorer

  • Budgets

  • AWS Shield

  • Amazon Route 53

  • AWS Certificate Manager

  • Upfront and recurring reserved fee and Savings Plan fees

Advance Pay

User entity AWS Inc
Currency USD
Fund usage after funds are added to your Advance Pay

  • Funds can only be used to pay for eligible AWS charges. Non-eligible charges (for example, AWS Marketplace invoices) are charged using the default payment method at the time of Advance Pay registration.

  • Funds can't be withdrawn, refunded, or transferred.

  • Funds can't be converted to other currencies.
If there are unused funds in your Advance Pay

  • You can't change your seller on record.

  • You can't change your preferred currency.

  • You can't change your default payment method.