Reviewing and approving your budget action
You receive a notification to inform you that an action is pending or has already run on your behalf, regardless of your action preferences. The notification includes a link to the Budget details page of the action. You can also navigate to the Budget details page by choosing the budget name on the Amazon Budgets page.
On the Budget details page, you can review and approve your budget action.
To review and approve your budget action
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On the Budget details page, in the Alerts section, choose Requires approval.
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In the Actions pop-up, choose the name of the alert that requires an action.
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On the Alert details page, in the Action section, review the action that requires approval.
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Select the action that you want to run, and then choose Run action.
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Choose Yes, I am sure.
Your pending actions move from the pending status in Action
history, listing the newest actions at the top. Amazon Budgets shows
actions configured and run in the last 60 days. You can view the full history of actions
by using Amazon CloudTrail or by calling the DescribeBudgetActionHistories
API.
Reversing a previous action
You can review and undo previously completed actions from the Action history table. Each status is defined as follows:
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Standby - Amazon Budgets is actively evaluating the action.
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Requires approval - The action was initiated, and is waiting for your approval.
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Completed - The action successfully completed.
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Reversed - The action was undone, and Amazon Budgets will no longer evaluate the action for the remaining budgeted period.
If you want Amazon Budgets to re-evaluate the reversed action during the same period, you can choose Reset. You can do this, for example, if you initiated a read-only policy but then received approval from your manager to increase your budget and adjust your budgeted amount during the current period.