Managing Amazon EFS file system costs using Amazon Budgets - Amazon Elastic File System
PrerequisitesCreating a monthly cost budget for an EFS file system
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Managing Amazon EFS file system costs using Amazon Budgets

You can plan and manage your Amazon EFS file system costs by using Amazon Budgets.

You can work with Amazon Budgets from the Amazon Billing and Cost Management console. To use Amazon Budgets, you create a monthly cost budget for your EFS file systems. You can set up your budget to notify you if your costs are forecast to exceed your budgeted amount, and then make adjustments to maintain your budget as needed.

There are costs associated with using Amazon Budgets. For regular Amazon Web Services accounts, your first two budgets are free. For more information about Amazon Budgets, including costs, see Managing Your Costs with Budgets in the Amazon Billing User Guide.

You can set custom budgets for your Amazon EFS costs and usage at the account, Amazon Web Services Region, service, or tag level by using budget parameters. In the following section, you can find a high-level description of how to set up a cost budget on an EFS file system with Amazon Budgets. You do so by using cost allocation tags.

Prerequisites

To perform the procedures referenced in the following sections, make sure that you have the following:

  • An EFS file system

  • An Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy with the following permissions:

    • Access to the Amazon Billing and Cost Management console.

    • Ability to perform the elasticfilesystem:CreateTags and elasticfilesystem:DescribeTags actions.

Creating a monthly cost budget for an EFS file system

Creating a monthly cost budget for your Amazon EFS file system using tags is a three-step process.

To create a monthly cost budget for your EFS file system using tags

  1. Create a tag to use to identify the file system that you want to track costs for. To learn how, see Tagging Amazon EFS resources.

  2. In the Billing and Cost Management console, activate the tag as a cost allocation tag. For a detailed procedure, see Activating user-defined cost allocation tags in the Amazon Billing User Guide.

  3. In the Billing and Cost Management console, under Budgets, create a monthly cost budget in Amazon Budgets. For a detailed procedure, see Creating a cost budget in the Amazon Billing User Guide.

After you create your EFS monthly cost budget, you can view it in the Budgets dashboard, which displays the following budget data:

  • Your current costs and usage incurred for a budget during the budget period.

  • Your budgeted costs for the budget period.

  • Your forecast costs for the budget period.

  • A percentage that shows your costs compared to your budgeted amount.

  • A percentage that shows your forecast costs compared to your budgeted amount.

For more information about viewing your EFS cost budget, see Viewing your budgets in the Amazon Billing User Guide.