--- title: AWS Budgets Reviews meta_title: 'AWS Budgets Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 45 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how AWS Budgets works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.1 review_count: 45 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-12' parent_category: name: IT Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-management --- # AWS Budgets Reviews **Vendor:** Amazon Web Services (AWS) **Category:** [Cloud Cost Management Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-cost-management) **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 45 ## About AWS Budgets AWS Budgets gives you the ability to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted amount. ## AWS Budgets Reviews ### 1. Proactive Cloud Spending with Easy Setup **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Atharva P. | Cloud BI Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 02, 2026 **What do you like best about AWS Budgets?** What I like best about AWS Budgets is the ability to proactively monitor cloud spending and send alerts before costs exceed planned thresholds. It's easy to configure and helps teams maintain better visibility into cloud expenses without requiring complex financial reporting tools. The alerting capability is something that I like a lot. Teams receive notifications when spending approaches predefined thresholds, allowing corrective action before budgets are exceeded. **What do you dislike about AWS Budgets?** While it works well for basic cost monitoring, the reporting and visualization capabilities are relatively limited. For deeper cost analysis, teams often need to use additional AWS cost management tools. **What problems is AWS Budgets solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use AWS Budgets to control cloud spending and prevent unexpected cost overruns by monitoring expenses, sending alerts, and identifying unusual spending patterns early. It improves cost governance and allows teams to take corrective action before costs become significant. ### 2. AWS Budget for your Budget **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ajay S N. | Junior Devops Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 05, 2024 **What do you like best about AWS Budgets?** We can set Budget and get notified about the spending. We can control our budget with this AWS Budget. **What do you dislike about AWS Budgets?** As of now my requirements are fulfilled with AWS Budgets. SO, I can't list any dislikes at this moment. **What problems is AWS Budgets solving and how is that benefiting you?** One of ourclient complained about their daily data transfer cost of one of their Application LoadBalancer is high and it is costing too much. They asked us to intimate them if the ALB data transfer exceeds $50. We set a Daily budget for the ALB Data Transfer and found a solution for the same. ### 3. AWS budget for the uses of the different survices **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anil kumar Y. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Budgets?** In AWS budget I really liked more the details explained price that are used and the thing like which services cost and which are free tier eligible services are best. **What do you dislike about AWS Budgets?** There are not many but I can say that once a time I got notification that you have been charged 24 dollars and I set limit at 2 dollars that makes me that may be some error occurred. **What problems is AWS Budgets solving and how is that benefiting you?** AWS solved many problems and the service of the AWS that is AWS budget solved the main problem about cost and budget system and getting the correct Amount of knowledge. ### 4. My Experience **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aman R. | Founder & CEO , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Budgets?** We use AWS Budgets to plan our fixed costs accordingly on a month-over-month basis, which helps us to better understand & improve our infrastructure cost, and alerts us if it goes over a limit. **What do you dislike about AWS Budgets?** AWS Budget currently lacks a better collaboration feature in which we can only add 10 members to alert them if we go over budget, and currently doesn't have custom alerts which are very helpful. **What problems is AWS Budgets solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use AWS Budget to solve our cloud architecture cost & to oversee where we are spending more to better improve & optimize our system which is helpful in the long run and also saves us money, Moreover we can budget accordingly of our fixed cost & alerts us when we go over the budget. ### 5. Great tool for financial management **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 16, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Budgets?** i recently had the opportunity to use AWS budget it's really help me to manage my finance .AWS budget is user friendly so any one can set budget according to their financial condition, you can set budget for monthly basis for any kind off amount, you will receive a email if you exceed the set budget. **What do you dislike about AWS Budgets?** AWS budget set budget for all tool / service combined but if there is option for particular service it would be great. **What problems is AWS Budgets solving and how is that benefiting you?** AWS solve the problem of cost control - it's allow user set budget according to their need , if you exceed the budget you will receives and mail and you can take necessary action to improve finances of the organisation or business ### 6. I am pro user of aws budgets to calculate. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rakesh kumar g. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 06, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Budgets?** It give me exact price of resources what will i user. **What do you dislike about AWS Budgets?** sometime it is more expensive if compare with azure. **What problems is AWS Budgets solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's giving me extact price of uses so it's help me a lot to manage my resouses very carefully. ### 7. AWS Budget is Amazing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Awanish S. | Marketing Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 13, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Budgets?** It allows you to set spending limits and receive alerts when your costs exceed those limits. This helps you keep track of your expenses and avoid unexpected overages. **What do you dislike about AWS Budgets?** All good and useful so far. There is nothing to dislike. **What problems is AWS Budgets solving and how is that benefiting you?** It create budgets based on your financial targets, business goals, or project requirements. This enables you to plan your spending in advance and allocate resources accordingly. ### 8. I'm a python developer and I used to deploy web apps in AWS. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prashanth D. | Lead Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 26, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Budgets?** This decreases time of the project and can start anything on hands on. **What do you dislike about AWS Budgets?** Dependency of cloud is increasing rapidly and depending complete development in cloud. **What problems is AWS Budgets solving and how is that benefiting you?** Giving some initial credits for free. I think that is very one. ### 9. One of the best way to manage spending on cloud based services **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 17, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Budgets?** As cloud services like AWS offer pay-as-you-go options most of the time, there are possibilities where we may forget about the financials behind the scene which could leave us overrun on top of the project allocation. So AWS Budgets helps us to stay on top of the billings and help us control unwanted financial burns. **What do you dislike about AWS Budgets?** As a billing management tool, the AWS Budgets does its job very well. So nothing much to complain about it. It's just that the pricing of AWS Budgets is a little bit high. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Budgets:** If your organization or team heavily uses AWS services and cloud-native solutions on AWS, I highly recommend AWS Budgets as it always helps you to stay on top of your financials and safeguard from unwanted billings. **What problems is AWS Budgets solving and how is that benefiting you?** At our organization we work with various could native solutions and development processes where AWS technologies are utilized most of the time. Therefore AWS Budgets has been an amazing service to monitor our financial threshold while executing the project development and R&D works. At the same time, AWS Budgets forecasting report features help us to further optimize the cost as well. ### 10. Ability to set custom budgets for you AWS account **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chetan S. | Software engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Budgets?** AWS budgets give you the power to control your spending or your bill on the AWS cloud, it sends a mail to you when the bill exceeds the amount you have set on AWS budgets. **What do you dislike about AWS Budgets?** I don't think there is any complaint against the AWS budgets service as it protects the user from extra billing. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Budgets:** The most powerful weapon for an AWS user. **What problems is AWS Budgets solving and how is that benefiting you?** AWS budgets help me in setting any custom budgets for my AWS workloads (EC2, EBS or any other service). It has a very user friendly interface. ## AWS Budgets Discussions - [What is AWS Budgets used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-aws-budgets-used-for) - [What services are free on AWS?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-services-are-free-on-aws) - [How do I create a budget on AWS?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-do-i-create-a-budget-on-aws) - [What is the main goal for creating a usage budget type in AWS budgets )?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-main-goal-for-creating-a-usage-budget-type-in-aws-budgets) - [What is AWS budget?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-aws-budget) - [View AWS Budgets pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-budgets/reviews/aws-budgets-review-1345949?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-14+07%3A19%3A45+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=cac6034d-1162-49a5-90f4-68d31f0b2f60&secure%5Btoken%5D=500b8562eb25d35402ca9e6a582dacc14195f5e4c008a70684ad99f7d8cf525c&format=llm_user) ## AWS Budgets Features **Operations** - Scheduling - Automation - Multi-Cloud Management - Usage Monitoring **Cost Optimization** - Spend Forecasting and Optimization - Recommendations - Spend Tracking **Administration** - Reporting - Dashboards and Visualizations - Compliance **Agentic AI - Cloud Cost Management** - Autonomous Task Execution - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making ## Top AWS Budgets Alternatives - [IBM Turbonomic](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-turbonomic/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (288 reviews) - [Site24x7](https://www.g2.com/products/site24x7/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (431 reviews) - [Datadog](https://www.g2.com/products/datadog/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (713 reviews)