DescribeBudget - Amazon Billing and Cost Management
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DescribeBudget

Describes a budget.

Important

The Request Syntax section shows the BudgetLimit syntax. For PlannedBudgetLimits, see the Examples section.

Request Syntax

{ "AccountId": "string", "BudgetName": "string" }

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

AccountId

The accountId that is associated with the budget that you want a description of.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Fixed length of 12.

Pattern: \d{12}

Required: Yes

BudgetName

The name of the budget that you want a description of.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 100.

Pattern: ^(?![^:\\]*/action/)[^:\\]+$

Required: Yes

Response Syntax

{ "Budget": { "AutoAdjustData": { "AutoAdjustType": "string", "HistoricalOptions": { "BudgetAdjustmentPeriod": number, "LookBackAvailablePeriods": number }, "LastAutoAdjustTime": number }, "BudgetLimit": { "Amount": "string", "Unit": "string" }, "BudgetName": "string", "BudgetType": "string", "CalculatedSpend": { "ActualSpend": { "Amount": "string", "Unit": "string" }, "ForecastedSpend": { "Amount": "string", "Unit": "string" } }, "CostFilters": { "string" : [ "string" ] }, "CostTypes": { "IncludeCredit": boolean, "IncludeDiscount": boolean, "IncludeOtherSubscription": boolean, "IncludeRecurring": boolean, "IncludeRefund": boolean, "IncludeSubscription": boolean, "IncludeSupport": boolean, "IncludeTax": boolean, "IncludeUpfront": boolean, "UseAmortized": boolean, "UseBlended": boolean }, "LastUpdatedTime": number, "PlannedBudgetLimits": { "string" : { "Amount": "string", "Unit": "string" } }, "TimePeriod": { "End": number, "Start": number }, "TimeUnit": "string" } }

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

Budget

The description of the budget.

Type: Budget object

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

AccessDeniedException

You are not authorized to use this operation with the given parameters.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InternalErrorException

An error on the server occurred during the processing of your request. Try again later.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidParameterException

An error on the client occurred. Typically, the cause is an invalid input value.

HTTP Status Code: 400

NotFoundException

We can’t locate the resource that you specified.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ThrottlingException

The number of API requests has exceeded the maximum allowed API request throttling limit for the account.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

Example

The following is the PlannedBudgetLimits syntax.

{ "Budget": { "BudgetLimit": { "Amount": "string", "Unit": "string" }, "PlannedBudgetLimits": { "BudgetLimit”: “string": { "Amount": "string", "Unit": "string" }, }, "BudgetName": "string", "BudgetType": "string", "CalculatedSpend": { "ActualSpend": { "Amount": "string", "Unit": "string" }, "ForecastedSpend": { "Amount": "string", "Unit": "string" } }, "CostFilters": { "string" : [ "string" ] }, "CostTypes": { "IncludeCredit": boolean, "IncludeDiscount": boolean, "IncludeOtherSubscription": boolean, "IncludeRecurring": boolean, "IncludeRefund": boolean, "IncludeSubscription": boolean, "IncludeSupport": boolean, "IncludeTax": boolean, "IncludeUpfront": boolean, "UseAmortized": boolean, "UseBlended": boolean }, "LastUpdatedTime": number, "TimePeriod": { "End": number, "Start": number }, "TimeUnit": "string" } }

Example

The following is a sample request and response of the DescribeBudget operation using BudgetLimit

Sample Request

POST / HTTP/1.1 Host: awsbudgets.<region>.<domain> x-amz-Date: <Date> Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=<Credential>, SignedHeaders=contenttype;date;host;user-agent;x-amz-date;x-amz-target;x-amzn-requestid,Signature=<Signature> User-Agent: <UserAgentString> Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1 Content-Length: <PayloadSizeBytes> Connection: Keep-Alive X-Amz-Target: AWSBudgetServiceGateway.DescribeBudget { "AccountId": "111122223333", "BudgetName": "Example Budget" }

Sample Response

{ "Budget": { "BudgetLimit": { "Amount": "100", "Unit": "USD" }, "BudgetName": "Example Budget", "BudgetType": "COST", "CalculatedSpend": { "ActualSpend": { "Amount": "50", "Unit": "USD" }, "ForecastedSpend": { "Amount": "100", "Unit": "USD" } }, "CostFilters": { "AZ" : [ "us-east-1" ] }, "CostTypes": { "IncludeCredit": true, "IncludeDiscount": true, "IncludeOtherSubscription": true, "IncludeRecurring": true, "IncludeRefund": true, "IncludeSubscription": true, "IncludeSupport": true, "IncludeTax": true, "IncludeUpfront": true, "UseBlended": false }, "TimePeriod": { "Start": 1477353600, "End": 1477958399 }, "TimeUnit": "MONTHLY" } }

Example

The following is a sample response of the DescribeBudget operation, using PlannedBudgetLimits.

Sample Response

{ "Budget": { "BudgetLimit": { "Amount": "100", "Unit": "USD" }, "PlannedBudgetLimits":{ "1583020800": { "Amount": "100", "Unit": "USD" }, "1564617600": { "Amount": "200", "Unit": "USD" }, "1569888000": { "Amount": "300", "Unit": "USD" }, "1556668800": { "Amount": "400", "Unit": "USD" }, "1575158400": { "Amount": "500", "Unit": "USD" }, "1580515200": { "Amount": "200", "Unit": "USD" }, "1567296000": { "Amount": "300", "Unit": "USD" }, "1554076800": { "Amount": "100", "Unit": "USD" }, "1577836800": { "Amount": "200", "Unit": "USD" }, "1561939200": { "Amount": "100", "Unit": "USD" }, "1572566400": { "Amount": "110", "Unit": "USD" }, "1559347200": { "Amount": "120", "Unit": "USD" } }, "BudgetName": "Example Budget", "BudgetType": "COST", "CalculatedSpend": { "ActualSpend": { "Amount": "50", "Unit": "USD" }, "ForecastedSpend": { "Amount": "100", "Unit": "USD" } }, "CostFilters": { "AZ" : [ "us-east-1" ] }, "CostTypes": { "IncludeCredit": true, "IncludeDiscount": true, "IncludeOtherSubscription": true, "IncludeRecurring": true, "IncludeRefund": true, "IncludeSubscription": true, "IncludeSupport": true, "IncludeTax": true, "IncludeUpfront": true, "UseBlended": false }, "TimePeriod": { "Start": 1477353600, "End": 1477958399 }, "TimeUnit": "MONTHLY" } }

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific Amazon SDKs, see the following: