Managing Budgets - AWS Service Catalog
PrerequisitesCreating a budgetAssociating a BudgetViewing a BudgetDisassociating a Budget

Managing Budgets

You can use AWS Budgets to track your service costs and usage within AWS Service Catalog. You can associate budgets with AWS Service Catalog products and portfolios.

Note

AWS Service Catalog does not support budgets for Terraform Open Source products.

AWS Budgets gives you the ability to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted amount. Information about AWS Budgets is available at https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/aws-budgets.

Prerequisites

Before using AWS Budgets, you need to activate cost allocation tags in the AWS Billing and Cost Management console. For more information, see Activating User-Defined Cost Allocation Tags in the AWS Billing and Cost Management User Guide.

Note

Tags take up to 24 hours to activate.

You also need to enable user access to the AWS Billing and Cost Management console for any users or groups who will be using the Budgets feature. You can do this by creating a new policy for your users.

To allow users to create budgets, you must also allow users to view billing information. If you want to use Amazon SNS notifications, you can give users the ability to create Amazon SNS notifications, as shown in the policy example below.

To create the budgets policy

  1. Open the IAM console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Policies.

  3. In the content pane, choose Create policy.

  4. Choose the JSON tab and copy the text from the following JSON policy document. Paste this text into the JSON text box. 

    
{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "Stmt1435216493000",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "aws-portal:ViewBilling",
                "aws-portal:ModifyBilling",
                "budgets:ViewBudget",
                "budgets:ModifyBudget"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "Sid": "Stmt1435216552000",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "sns:*"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:sns:us-east-1"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

  5. When you are finished, choose Review policy. The Policy Validator reports any syntax errors.

  6. On the Review page, give your policy a name. Review the policy Summary to see the permissions granted by your policy, and then choose Create policy to save your work.

    The new policy appears in the list of managed policies and is ready to attach to your users and groups. For more information, see Create and Attach Customer Managed Policy in the AWS Identity and Access Management User Guide.

Creating a budget

In the AWS Service Catalog administrator console, the Product list and Portfolios pages list information about existing products and portfolios and allow you to take actions on them. To create a budget, first decide which product or portfolio that you want to associate the budget to.

To create a budget

  1. Open the Service Catalog console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/servicecatalog/.

  2. Choose Product list or Portfolios.

  3. Select the product or portfolio that you want to add a budget to.

  4. Open the Actions menu, and then choose Create budget.

  5. On the Budget creation page, associate one tag type to your budget.

    There are two types of tags: AutoTags and TagOptions. AutoTags identify the portfolio, product, and user that launched a product. AWS Service Catalog applies these tags automatically to provisioned resources. A TagOption is an administrator-defined key-value pair that's managed in AWS Service Catalog.

    In order for spending that occurs on a portfolio or product to reflect on the associated budget, they must have the same tag. Note that a tag key being used for the first time can take 24 hours to activate. For more information, see Prerequisites.

  6. Choose Create in AWS Budgets. You're directed to the Set your budget page. Continue setting up your budget by following the steps in Creating a Budget.

Note

After you create a budget, you must associate it to the product or portfolio.

Associating a Budget

Each portfolio or product can have one budget associated to it. Each budget can be associated to multiple portfolios and products.

When you associate a budget to a portfolio or product, you're able to view information about the budget from that portfolio or product's details page. In order for spending that occurs on the portfolio or product to be reflected on the budget, you must associate the same tags on the budget and portfolio or product.

Note

If you delete a budget from AWS Budgets, existing associations with AWS Service Catalog products and portfolios still exist. AWS Service Catalog won't be able to display any information about the deleted budget.

To associate a budget

  1. Open the Service Catalog console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/servicecatalog/.

  2. Choose Product list or Portfolios.

  3. Select the product or portfolio that you want to associate a budget to.

  4. Open the Actions menu, and then choose Associate budget.

  5. On the Budget association page, select an existing budget, and then choose Continue.

  6. The products or portfolios table now includes data for the budget you just added.

Viewing a Budget

If a budget is associated to a product, you can view information about the budget on the Product details and Product list pages. If a budget is associated to a portfolio, you can view information about the budget on the Portfolios and Portfolio details pages.

The Portfolios and Product list pages display budget information for existing resources. You can see columns displaying Current vs. budget and Forecast vs. budget.

When you choose on a product or portfolio, you're directed to a details page. The Portfolio details and Product details pages have sections with detailed information about the associated budgets. You can see the budgeted amount, current spend, and forecasted spend. You also have the option to view budget details and edit the budget.

Disassociating a Budget

You can disassociate a budget from a portfolio or product.

Note

If you delete a budget from AWS Budgets, existing associations with AWS Service Catalog products and portfolios still exist. AWS Service Catalog won't be able to display any information about the deleted budget.

To disassociate a budget

  1. Open the Service Catalog console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/servicecatalog/.

  2. Choose Product list or Portfolios.

  3. Select the product or portfolio that you want to disassociate a budget from.

  4. Choose Actions. From the dropdown, choose Disassociate budget. A confirmation alert appears.

  5. After you confirm that you want to dissacciate the budget from the product or portfolio, choose Confirm.