# Billing & cost management services
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The following table describes how Amazon Billing and Cost Management integrates with Amazon SNS to provide notifications for budgets, price changes, and cost anomalies. 

You can use this integration to set-up Amazon SNS topics to receive real-time alerts about your Amazon spending, helping you monitor costs and respond to unexpected charges efficiently.


| Amazon Web Services service | Benefit of using with Amazon SNS | 
| --- | --- | 
| [Amazon Billing and Cost Management](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/billing-what-is.html) – Provides features that help you monitor your costs and pay your bill. | Receive budget notifications, price change notifications, and anomaly alerts. For more information, see the following pages in the Amazon Billing User Guide:+  [Creating an Amazon SNS topic for budget notifications](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/budgets-sns-policy.html) <br />+  [Setting up notifications](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/price-notification.html) <br />+  [Detecting unusual spend with Amazon Cost Anomaly Detection](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/manage-ad.html)  |