Viewing and creating budgets using billing views
AWS Budgets supports primary and custom billing views, allowing you to create and manage budgets based on filtered cost and usage data across multiple accounts within your organization. This feature enables decentralized cloud cost management across your organization without requiring access to the management account.
When creating a new budget, you can select a billing view to define the scope of cost and usage data the budget will track. The selected billing view is saved as part of the budget definition.
When you create a budget using a billing view, the budget only tracks cost and usage data within the scope of that billing view. For instance, you could create a budget that tracks costs only for a specific department or project. This allows for more granular budget management aligned with your organizational structure or cost allocation strategies.
To view or create a budget using a billing view
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Open the Billing and Cost Management console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/costmanagement/
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In the navigation pane, select the Choose billing view menu. The default selection is the Primary view, which represents cost management data for the account you're currently logged in to.
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From the dropdown list, choose the billing view you want to use:
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Primary view: Shows cost management data for your current account.
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Custom views: Shows filtered cost management data based on defined criteria.
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In the navigation pane, choose Budgets.
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For existing budgets, the budgets list displays only the budgets created using the selected billing view.
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For a new budget, choose Create budget, and then follow the budget creation workflow. The selected billing view is automatically applied to the new budget. For more details, see Creating a budget.
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Budgets created with billing views can only be viewed and managed when the corresponding billing view is selected. When you switch to a different billing view, these budgets will not be visible in the budgets list.
