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Congrats! you’ve just opened a brand new AWS account. What now? Beside getting rid of the root account, the second most wise action to do before doing anything is setting some control for bills.
I’m writing this post because some months ago I incurred in a 20 - something dollar bill from AWS for one of the accounts I opened in order to do some exercises. The account hadn’t much going on, but I left a disconnected elastic IP on for about a week… thus the mishap.
So let’s see what I’d love to have done in that situation, of course along with the respective Cloudformation templates.

Activate cost explorer

While being with the root account, you might want to turn cost explorer on. You can do it from two places: in the main UI you should see a box with “Cost and usage”, and at its center a button stating “Turn on cost explorer”