My AWS budget

I have experienced billing surprises to many times. therefore.. This is one of the first stacks I deploy to accounts I work with

This CDK app will install a COST budget, threshold is set to 100% and will send a mail to the email recipient when reached Configure the context in cdk.json

Prerequisites

• Install AWS CDK
  https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/latest/guide/work-with-cdk-typescript.html
• Bootstrap your account with "the modern template"
  https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/latest/guide/bootstrapping.html

CDK_NEW_BOOTSTRAP=1 cdk bootstrap aws://<ACCOUNT-NUMBER>/<REGION>

• Clone the project and cd to the directory
• Configure in cdk.json (notification_mail is required)
• Synthesize and deploy the app
  • npm run synth
  • npm cdk deploy

Useful commands

• npm run clean delete cdk.out and ts-build.out
• npm run synth clean, tsc build and cdk synth
• npm run test perform the jest unit tests
• npm cdk deploy deploy this stack to your default AWS account/region