Taking Control of Cloud Costs: My Journey with AWS Budgets

Taking Control of Cloud Costs: My Journey with AWS Budgets

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When I first started leveraging AWS for personal projects, I focused mainly on infrastructure setup and development. I was thrilled by AWS’s scalability, but I was confronted with unexpected costs before long. The allure of “pay-as-you-go” had a flip side: monitoring and managing cloud expenses quickly became overwhelming, especially with the influx of hidden fees like data transfers, underutilized resources, and storage growth. I needed a structured way to track my spending, leading me to AWS Budgets—a powerful tool that offered the transparency and control I sought.