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Quota Monitor for AWS

Monitor resource usage and receive notifications when approaching quotas

Overview

Important: This solution will retire in December 2026. Deployments (via CloudFormation or GitHub) will remain operational, but customers will assume responsibility for maintenance and API-related updates post-retirement. 

Customers can explore using AWS Service Quotas for proactive usage monitoring and automated management of your service quotas. Service Quotas Automatic Management provides a fully AWS-managed alternative that covers the most common quota monitoring and alerting needs without requiring customer-managed infrastructure. 

Planning your migration: When transitioning to Automatic Management, note these key differences to ensure full coverage: it uses standardized AWS-defined thresholds (80% and 95%), focuses on resource quotas (not API rate limits), and supports a subset of services. To view supported quotas in your account, navigate to the Automatic Management section in the Service Quotas console.

Quota Monitor for AWS helps you proactively track your resource usage and sends email or Slack notifications when you approach quotas. Tracking your usage against Service Quotas helps you plan for requesting a quota increase before you exceed the quota. This AWS Solution leverages AWS Trusted Advisor and Service Quotas to monitor AWS resource usage and raise alerts. You can use this solution in any AWS Region, including AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

This solution includes a Hub template that you deploy in your monitoring account. Additionally, the solution provides a Service Quotas spoke template and a Trusted Advisor spoke template. You must deploy each of these templates in the accounts that need quota monitoring. 

Benefits

Track resource usage

Provision the services necessary to proactively track resource usage and send notifications when you approach quotas. 

Receive notifications through email or Slack

Request quota increases or shut down resources before you reach a service quota, based on quota notifications you receive through email or your existing Slack channel.

How it works

You can automatically deploy this architecture using the implementation guide and the accompanying AWS CloudFormation templates. This solution provides multiple templates, including a Hub template, a Service Quotas spoke template, and a Trusted Advisor spoke template.

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About this deployment

  • Version: 6.3.10

  • Released: 3/2026

  • Author: AWS

  • Est. deployment time: 5 mins

  • Estimated cost: See details

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