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
thresholdTypeofPERCENTAGE -
A
comparisonOperatorofGREATER_THAN -
A notification
thresholdof80
Contents
- ComparisonOperator
-
The comparison that's used for this notification.
Type: String
Valid Values:
GREATER_THAN | LESS_THAN | EQUAL_TORequired: 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 | FORECASTEDRequired: 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
ALARMstate, you passed the set threshold for the budget.Type: String
Valid Values:
OK | ALARMRequired: No
- ThresholdType
-
The type of threshold for a notification. For
ABSOLUTE_VALUEthresholds, AWS notifies you when you go over or are forecasted to go over your total cost threshold. ForPERCENTAGEthresholds, 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 aPERCENTAGEthreshold of 80%, AWS notifies you when you go over 160 dollars.Type: String
Valid Values:
PERCENTAGE | ABSOLUTE_VALUERequired: No
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
