Notification - AWS Billing and Cost Management
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Notification

A notification that's associated with a budget. A budget can have up to ten notifications.

Each notification must have at least one subscriber. A notification can have one SNS subscriber and up to 10 email subscribers, for a total of 11 subscribers.

For example, if you have a budget for 200 dollars and you want to be notified when you go over 160 dollars, create a notification with the following parameters:

  • A notificationType of ACTUAL

  • A thresholdType of PERCENTAGE

  • A comparisonOperator of GREATER_THAN

  • A notification threshold of 80

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ComparisonOperator

The comparison that's used for this notification.

Type: String

Valid Values: GREATER_THAN | LESS_THAN | EQUAL_TO

Required: Yes

NotificationType

Specifies whether the notification is for how much you have spent (ACTUAL) or for how much that you're forecasted to spend (FORECASTED).

Type: String

Valid Values: ACTUAL | FORECASTED

Required: Yes

Threshold

The threshold that's associated with a notification. Thresholds are always a percentage, and many customers find value being alerted between 50% - 200% of the budgeted amount. The maximum limit for your threshold is 1,000,000% above the budgeted amount.

Type: Double

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0. Maximum value of 15000000000000.

Required: Yes

NotificationState

Specifies whether this notification is in alarm. If a budget notification is in the ALARM state, you passed the set threshold for the budget.

Type: String

Valid Values: OK | ALARM

Required: No

ThresholdType

The type of threshold for a notification. For ABSOLUTE_VALUE thresholds, AWS notifies you when you go over or are forecasted to go over your total cost threshold. For PERCENTAGE thresholds, AWS notifies you when you go over or are forecasted to go over a certain percentage of your forecasted spend. For example, if you have a budget for 200 dollars and you have a PERCENTAGE threshold of 80%, AWS notifies you when you go over 160 dollars.

Type: String

Valid Values: PERCENTAGE | ABSOLUTE_VALUE

Required: No

See Also

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