# Amazon CloudWatch tutorials
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 The following scenarios illustrate how you can use Amazon CloudWatch. In the first scenario, you use the CloudWatch console to create a billing alarm that tracks your AWS usage and lets you know when you have exceeded a certain spending threshold. In the second scenario, you use the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) to publish a single metric for a hypothetical application named *GetStarted*. 

**Scenarios**
+ [Monitor your estimated charges](gs_monitor_estimated_charges_with_cloudwatch.md)
+ [Publish metrics](PublishMetrics.md)