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AWS cost-management documentation change

Service: cost-management · 2025-05-22 · Documentation low

File: cost-management/latest/userguide/getting-started-ad.md

Summary

Added AWS User Notifications integration details and clarified access control for cost monitors

Security assessment

The added note about account-level access control for cost monitors reinforces security best practices but does not fix a specific security issue.

Diff

diff --git a/cost-management/latest/userguide/getting-started-ad.md b/cost-management/latest/userguide/getting-started-ad.md
index 062d48128..44b7ddc03 100644
--- a//cost-management/latest/userguide/getting-started-ad.md
+++ b//cost-management/latest/userguide/getting-started-ad.md
@@ -31,0 +32,9 @@ As you create your cost monitors, configure your alert subscriptions specific to
+You can also create individual alerts by setting up AWS User Notifications.
+
+###### Note
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+You can only access cost monitors and alert subscriptions under the account that created them. For example, suppose that the cost monitor was created under a member account. Then, the management account can't view or edit the cost monitors, alert subscriptions, or detected anomalies.
+
+Cost monitors
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+
@@ -104,0 +114,3 @@ Even if an anomaly is below the alert threshold, the machine learning model cont
+Alert subscriptions
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@@ -152 +164 @@ Even if an anomaly is below the alert threshold, the machine learning model cont
-###### Note
+AWS User Notifications
@@ -154 +166,2 @@ Even if an anomaly is below the alert threshold, the machine learning model cont
-You can only access cost monitors and alert subscriptions under the account that created them. For example, suppose that the cost monitor was created under a member account. Then, the management account can't view or edit the cost monitors, alert subscriptions, or detected anomalies.
+
+For information about how to create individual alerts, see [Using AWS User Notifications with Cost Anomaly Detection](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/latest/userguide/cad-user-notifications.html).