Policy: AWS > Well-Architected Tool > AWS Well-Architected Framework > Cost Optimization > COST 01. How do you implement cloud financial management? > Monitor cost proactively

Implement tooling and dashboards to monitor cost proactively for the workload. Do not just look at costs and categories when you receive notifications. This helps to identify positive trends and promote them throughout your organization.

See Monitor cost proactively for more information.

Resource Types

This policy targets the following resource types:

AWS > Well-Architected Tool > AWS Well-Architected Framework

Primary Policy

This policy is used with the following primary policy:

AWS > Well-Architected Tool > AWS Well-Architected Framework > Cost Optimization > COST 01. How do you implement cloud financial management?

Controls

Policy Specification

Schema Type	`string`
Default	`Skip`
Valid Values [YAML]	`Skip` `True` `False`

In Your Workspace

Policy Settings by Type report

Developers

Category URI

tmod:@turbot/turbot#/control/categories/other

Policy Type URI

tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/cost01ProactiveProcess

GraphQL

query policyType(id: "tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/cost01ProactiveProcess") { … }

query policySettings(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/cost01ProactiveProcess'") { … }

query policyValues(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/cost01ProactiveProcess'") { … }

CLI

Get Policy Type

turbot graphql policy-type --id "tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/cost01ProactiveProcess"

Get Policy Settings

turbot graphql policy-settings --filter "policyTypeId:tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/cost01ProactiveProcess"