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AWS Service Catalog Integration with AWS Budgets

Getting started with the AWS 

Service Catalog

Using AWS Service Catalog, you can build and manage custom portfolios that include any AWS-approved IT services, including anything from servers to software, from databases to full-fledged applications. This makes it easy for organizations to quickly deploy IT-curated solutions at scale.

For example, you can create a portfolio that includes a VPC and EC2 instances intended for a particular project. You can do this by navigating to the Portfolios tab.

In the screenshot below, you can see a summary of a sample compute portfolio.

Once you have reviewed your portfolio information choose the Actions menu in the top right corner and choose Create Budget.

The wizard prompts you to select the tag that you have applied to this portfolio. This portfolio tag is a system-generated tag applied at the time of portfolio creation. To track a specific aspect of your portfolio, you can also create custom tags from the TagOption library link, available in the left-hand sidebar menu.

From there, you can select the tag and choose Next. This takes you to AWS Budgets.

After you configure your budget, you can specify up to five thresholds for when you (and other stakeholders in your organization) should receive alerts. You can configure these alerts to trigger based on your actual costs, or based on your forecasted costs for the month.

After you complete your budget creation, the wizard returns you to the AWS Service Catalog console.

Now, when viewing your portfolios in Service Catalog, you can track the status of your budget. You can modify your portfolio budget at any time by accessing the AWS Budgets console through the Service Catalog portfolio details page or directly from the AWS Budgets console.