boraxtheclean / aws-account-setup

AWS Account Setup

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This repo contains a cloudformation template to deploy to your fresh AWS account. It will create an IAM user to use and a Budget to notify you if you exceed a threshold of spend.

It is an AWS best practice to use IAM User accounts instead of root credentials. The IAM User provisioned will have administrator access.

Parameters

  BudgetThreshold:
    Type: String
    Description: Alarm if AWS spend is over this threshold in dollars.
    Default: 10

  Email:
    Type: String
    Description: The email to which a billing notification will be sent.

  UserName:
    Type: String
    Description: The name of the IAM user to create.

  Password:
    Type: String
    NoEcho: True
    Description: The password for your IAM user. You can change it later.

When deploying the stack, you'll want to set these parameters to fit your use case:

• BudgetThreshold
  • This is a monthly budget, in USD. You'll recieve email notifications when you exceed 80% or 100% of the budget. The threshold is adjustable, so if you set it to $3 and later find $10 is more useful, you can update the Stack with a new value to update it.
• Email
  • This email will recieve billing notifications based on your budget.
• UserName
  • You'll use this value to log in to the console with your IAM User this stack creates.
• Password
  • You'll use this password to log in. This password won't be visible in the console after you enter it.

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