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AWS CLF-C02
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Setting up a budget #

Billing and Cost Management is only available for the root user (or user with the right privileges).

1. Enabling Billing and Cost Management for IAM user #

  • Log in as root to AWS Console
  • Click on your user in the top right corner, select an account
  • Scroll down to “IAM user and role access to Billing information”
  • Activate IAM access

This will allow access to billing information for IAM users that are in Administrators group.

2. Create a budget #

Billing and Cost Management > Budgets > Create a budget

» Table of contents (CLF-C02) « #

1. What is Cloud Computing2. IAM3. Budget
4. EC25. Security Groups6. Storage
7. AMI8. Scalability & High Availability9. Elastic Load Balancing
10. Auto Scaling Group11. S312. Databases
13. Other Compute Services14. Deployments15. AWS Global Infrastructure
16. Cloud Integrations17. Cloud Monitoring18. VPC
19. Security and Compliance20. Machine Learning21. Account Management and Billing
22. Advanced Identity23. Other Services24. AWS Architecting & Ecosystem
25. Preparing for AWS Practitioner exam

» Disclaimer « #

Disclaimer: Content for educational purposes only, no rights reserved.

Most of the content in this series is coming from Stephane Maarek’s Ultimate AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner CLF-C02 2025 course on Udemy.

I highly encourage you to take the Stephane’s courses as they are awesome and really help understanding the subject.

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This article is just a summary and has been published to help me learning and passing the practitioner exam.