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Set Up a New AWS Account

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    Gene Zhang
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Set Up IAM Identity Center and Organizations

https://genezhang.net/blog/aws/set-up-iam-identity-center

Enable IAM Access to the Billing Console

  1. Log in as the root user.
  2. Go to the Account Settings page, scroll down, and there’s a section titled IAM User Access to Billing Information. Check the Activate IAM Access check box, and then click Update: activate-iam-access

Create a Zero spend budget

Create a Zero spend budget from the template: budget-setup
Update the budget settings to be daily with a budget $0.01: budget-setup2
Create another Zero spend budget. It's monthly by default: budget-setup3
You will get notifications like: budget-setup4