A company wants to track its AWS costs in all member accounts that are part of an organization in AWS Organizations. Managers of the member accounts want to receive a notification when the estimated costs exceed a predetermined amount each month. The managers are unable to configure a billing alarm. The IAM permissions for all users are correct. What could be the cause of this issue?
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The management/payer account does not have billing alerts turned on.
Most accepted answer: A. The management/payer account does not have billing alerts turned on.
Community votes: A=4, B=1
Selected Answer: A In a consolidated billing account, member linked account metrics are captured only if the payer account enables the Receive Billing Alerts preference. If you change which account is your management/payer account, you must enable the billing alerts in the new management/payer account. upvoted 5 times
Selected Answer: A Before you can create an alarm for your estimated charges, you must enable billing alerts, so that you can monitor your estimated AWS charges and create an alarm using billing metric data. After you enable billing alerts, you can't disable data collection, but you can delete any billing alarms that you created. After you enable billing alerts for the first time, it takes about 15 minutes before you can view billing data and set billing alarms. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/monitor_estimated_charges_with_cloudwatch.html#turning_on_billing_metrics:~:text=Before%20you%20can%20create%20an%20alarm%20for%20your%20estimated%20charges%2C%20you%20must%20enable%20billing%20alerts%2C%20so%20that%20you%20can%20monitor%20your%20estimated%20AWS%20charges%20and%20create%20an%20alarm%20using%20billing%20metric%20data. upvoted 4 times
Selected Answer: B B is the answer. By default, the management/payer account has access to billing information for all the accounts in the organization. It can enable billing alerts and set up notifications for cost thresholds. However, in this scenario, the managers of the member accounts are unable to configure a billing alarm. This indicates that the issue lies with the permissions and access of the managers, rather than the configuration of the management/payer account. upvoted 1 times eboehm 2 years ago what the heck are you talking about? for starters it states that the permissions for all users are correct. Secondly, what does that have to do with Resource Access Manager(RAM), which is used for securely shared your provisioned aws resources and NOT billing information! upvoted 9 times ...
what the heck are you talking about? for starters it states that the permissions for all users are correct. Secondly, what does that have to do with Resource Access Manager(RAM), which is used for securely shared your provisioned aws resources and NOT billing information! upvoted 9 times
Selected Answer: A aaaaaaaaa upvoted 1 times