Track and Optimize AWS Costs with a Custom Dashboard

This tutorial is a revised version of a proof-of-concept I created for a client few months ago. I wanted to showcase how I manage costs, improve performance, and implement best practices in an AWS environment. To do this, I  created a real-time AWS cost monitoring solution to track spending, send alerts, and visualize trends using AWS Budgets, SNS, Lambda, and QuickSight.

My goal was to create a system that monitors your cloud cost, visualizes trends from previous months, and sends alerts directly to your phone or email when your spending exceeds a threshold.

In this tutorial, you will learn

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