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A SysOps Administrator is setting up a CloudWatch billing alarm to monitor estimated monthly charges and send an email notification via Amazon SNS if they exceed a target budget. The administrator logs into the AWS Management Console, navigates to Amazon CloudWatch in the us-east-1 (US East - N. Virginia) region, but discovers that the EstimatedCharges metric is missing from the Billing namespace. What configuration change is required to make the EstimatedCharges metric visible in CloudWatch?

  1. A
    Create an Amazon EventBridge rule to route EstimatedCharges events from the Billing Dashboard to a CloudWatch log group as the primary event destination.
  2. Enable the option to receive billing alerts in the Billing Preferences section of the AWS Billing and Cost Management console.Answer
  3. C
    Enable detailed monitoring with a 1-minute interval for billing metrics within the AWS Billing and Cost Management console.
  4. D
    Configure a static alert in AWS Budgets, which automatically enables and publishes the EstimatedCharges metric to CloudWatch.

Answer

Enable the option to receive billing alerts in the Billing Preferences section of the AWS Billing and Cost Management console.
The EstimatedCharges metric in the CloudWatch Billing namespace is only generated and populated after the user enables billing alerts in the Billing Preferences page of the AWS Billing and Cost Management console. Once this option is turned on, Billing data is published to CloudWatch, allowing the administrator to configure the alarm.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Access the AWS Billing and Cost Management console and navigate to Billing Preferences.
Located the billing alert configuration options.
AWS does not publish estimated billing charges to CloudWatch by default; this setting must be explicitly enabled to initiate metric generation.
2
Enable the option to receive billing alerts.
AWS Billing begins sending estimated charges data to CloudWatch.
Enabling this preference triggers the collection and publication of the EstimatedCharges metric in the CloudWatch billing namespace.
3
Select the US East (N. Virginia) region in the CloudWatch console to find the EstimatedCharges metric.
The metric becomes visible under the Billing namespace in the us-east-1 region.
Billing metric data is stored only in the us-east-1 region, even if the resources and alarms are configured from other AWS accounts or regions.

Key Concept

Enabling and monitoring EstimatedCharges metrics in CloudWatch for billing alarms.
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CloudWatch Metrics and Alarms

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