This repository contains a Terraform module that helps set up AWS billing alerts. Once configured, it will notify users when AWS charges exceed the specified amounts.

• Terraform installed on your local machine.
• An AWS account.
• AWS CLI configured with necessary credentials.

AWS CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service. With CloudWatch, you can collect and access all your performance and operational data in form of logs and metrics from a single platform. This module uses CloudWatch to monitor your AWS billing and trigger an alarm when the specified thresholds are crossed.

AWS SNS is a fully managed notification service. It allows you to send individual messages or to fan-out messages to large numbers of recipients. In the context of this module, SNS is used to send out notifications when the billing alarm in CloudWatch is triggered.

AWS Billing provides you with tools and features to pay for what you use, manage your costs, and budget your AWS costs. AWS charges can accumulate quickly depending on the services and the usage, hence monitoring the billing is crucial. This module helps in automating the monitoring process and alerts you before your bill goes beyond your expectations.

1. Clone the Repository

   Clone Repository

You can clone this repository to your local machine using the following steps:

1. Open your terminal or command prompt.

2. Navigate to the directory where you want to clone the repository:

   cd /path/to/your/directory
   

• Replace /path/to/your/directory with the actual path to your desired directory.

• Clone the repository by running the following command:

git clone https://github.com/NotHarshhaa/aws-billing-alert-terraform.git

This will create a copy of the repository on your local machine.

Change your working directory to the cloned repository:

cd aws-billing-alert-terraform

Now you have successfully cloned the repository to your local machine and can start working with it.

Note: Ensure that you have Git installed on your machine before running the git clone command.

• Replace /path/to/your/directory

This guide will walk you through the installation of Terraform on an Amazon Linux system using yum. Terraform is an infrastructure as code tool that allows you to define and provision infrastructure resources in a declarative configuration file.

Before you begin, make sure you have the following prerequisites:

• An Amazon Linux system.
• sudo or root access to your server.

Follow these steps to install Terraform on your Amazon Linux system:

# Install necessary packages
sudo yum install -y yum-utils shadow-utils

# Add HashiCorp repository for Amazon Linux
sudo yum-config-manager --add-repo https://rpm.releases.hashicorp.com/AmazonLinux/hashicorp.repo

# Install Terraform
sudo yum -y install terraform

After the installation is complete, you can verify the installation by checking the Terraform version:

terraform --version

2. Initialize Terraform

   Navigate to the directory where you've cloned the repository and run:

terraform init

3. Apply the Terraform Configuration

After initializing, apply the Terraform configuration:

terraform apply 

Review the plan, and if everything looks good, proceed by typing yes.

Modify the Terraform configuration as needed to fit your requirements. By default, alerts are set at $100 and $120, but you can adjust these values in the main Terraform file.

Feedback, bug reports, and pull requests are welcomed. Feel free to raise an issue or submit a pull request.

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