AWS Promotional Credit program for Research
AWS Credits
Congratulations on being awarded AWS promotional credits. If you do not yet have an AWS account you may follow these simple setup instructions to create an account. Note that all cost, billing and security is the responsibility of the AWS account owner and associated research groups.
Applying the credit code
Budget Reporting
In addition to budget alerts below, we strongly recommend setting up daily or weekly budget report emails to maintain awareness of spend in your AWS account. See instructions here.
Budget Alerting
AWS budget alerts paired with weekly budget reports are useful tools for alerting groups to unexpected spend in their account. It is recommended to determine your desired monthly spend thresholds based on the amount of AWS credits issued along with any preexisting budgets . Be aware that AWS promotional credits have a default lifespan of 1 year. Click here to launch an AWS Cloudformation Stack that will automatically generate tiered budget alerts to email and optionally cell phone . (Click Link > Login to AWS Console > Hit Next > Fill Parameters > Hit Next > Click Create Stack.) AWS budget alert threshold values and alert contact information may be modified at any time through the AWS Console. (AWS Console > Billing > Budgets).
More complex setup requirements such as multiple budget alerts and multi-tiered AWS organizations are out of the scope of this budget template and will require manual configuration in the AWS console. See the following links for more information.
Ten Minute Tutorial for Research: Cost Monitoring and Budgets on AWS
AWS Billing and Cost Management Documentation
Getting Started with AWS Budgets
Creating an AWS Budgets report
Security
AWS Regions
IMSS typically recommends that researchers stick with AWS Region US-West-2 (Oregon) as it's less expensive than the older US-WEST-2 (California) region, is more decoupled from California's seismic events and receives new AWS services well before US-WEST-1.