Set a policy every time a new service is added or a cost for a service appears
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Set a policy every time a new service is added or a cost for a service appears

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Article ID: 284082

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Issue/Introduction

At present there is a not a way to do that exactly, yet a policy can be created to alert on costs > $0 for specific services that they select.

 

Instead of using a policy, a Cost History report can be created using the exclude filter to exclude all existing services.  Then they could subscribe to the report on a daily basis.  Whenever new service costs appear, they will be visible in the report subscription.

Resolution

The reason it is not possible is because there is not a policy condition for "When cost increased from ___", there is "When cost increased by ___" .  That being said, a policy can be configured that would alert on this situation but it could and likely would alert on cost increases for services that are not new as well. 

A policy to use "Evaluate for each" could also be configured to evaluate the condition against each individual group of whatever is specified.  For example, the policy in the screenshot below would alert if any AWS Service's total cost increased by over 100% in one day: