You need to know when you spend $1000 or more on AWS. What's the easy way for you to see that notification?
A) AWS CloudWatch Events tied to API calls, when certain thresholds are exceeded, publish to SNS.
B) Scrape the billing page periodically and pump into Kinesis.
C) AWS CloudWatch Metrics + Billing Alarm + Lambda event subscription. When a threshold is exceeded, email the manager.
D) Scrape the billing page periodically and publish to SNS.

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AWS CloudWatch Metrics can monitor billing data, and you can set up a Billing Alarm to notify you via email when spending exceeds a certain threshold, such as $1000.

You Need to Know When You Spend $1000 or More