cloudformation-effectual-activebudgetcontroller
Active Budget Controller
This solution deploys resources to create an AWS Budget, Notification, and Budget Action on your Account. Based on the defined budget it will:
- Create an AWS Budget
- Create an AWS Budget Notification at the defined threshold
- Notify you via email and sns when that threshold is reached
- Create an AWS Budget Action at the defined threshold
- Apply an IAM Policy to the defined IAM User Group when the threshold is reached
- When the Action is approved (Manually or Automatically), the Policy will prevent that group from creating new resources
This solution is for administrators looking to limit cost sprawl in a non destructive way by managing resource creation without preventing management of existing resources.
Architecture
How to use
This solution is designed to be deployed to your Home Region only as the AWS Budgets is a global service.
When you deploy this solution, you will need to provide the following parameters:
| Name | Description | Type | Default | Allowed Values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BudgetLimit | Enter budget limit in dollars | Number | ||
| SubscribersEmailAddress | Email address to send notifications to | String | ||
| GroupToAttachPolicy | A group to attach policy to | String | AWS::NoValue |
There are additional parameters you can override to customize this solutions as well. See full list of parameters below:
| Name | Description | Type | Default | Allowed Values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BudgetLimit | Enter budget limit in dollars | Number | ||
| TimeUnit | Email address to send notifications to | String | ||
| BudgetActionApproval | This specifies if the action needs manual or automatic approval. | String | MANUAL | AUTOMATIC, MANUAL |
| NotificationType | The type of a notification. | String | ACTUAL | ACTUAL, FORECASTED |
| SubscribersEmailAddress | Email address to send notifications to. | String | ||
| NotificationThreshold | The threshold of a notification. | String | 80 | |
| BudgetActionThreshold | The threshold of the action. | String | 100 | |
| GroupToAttachPolicy | A group to attach policy to. | String | ||
| BudgetTopicDisplayName | The display name to use for an Amazon SNS topic. The display name must be maximum 100 characters long, including hyphens (-), underscores (_), spaces, and tabs. | String |