About the Project Lately, I’ve seen some horror stories (1, 2) about side projects gone awry resulting in HUGE cloud bills. As a homelab enthusiast, and cloud user I wanted to write up some notes on how I stay ontop of billing to avoid surprise costs. This blog will outline some alerting pipeline I’ve built in my homelab. Building Notification Pipelines AWS Billing allows for e-mail notifications in the event you’re approaching a particular self-defined billing threshold.
