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DescribeBudgetAction - AWS Billing and Cost Management

DescribeBudgetAction

Describes a budget action detail.

Request Syntax

{ "AccountId": "string", "ActionId": "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 account ID of the user. It's a 12-digit number.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Fixed length of 12.

Pattern: \d{12}

Required: Yes

ActionId

A system-generated universally unique identifier (UUID) for the action.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Fixed length of 36.

Pattern: ^[a-fA-F0-9]{8}-[a-fA-F0-9]{4}-[a-fA-F0-9]{4}-[a-fA-F0-9]{4}-[a-fA-F0-9]{12}$

Required: Yes

BudgetName

A string that represents the budget name. The ":" and "\" characters, and the "/action/" substring, aren't allowed.

Type: String

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

Pattern: ^(?![^:\\]*/action/|(?i).*<script>.*</script>.*)[^:\\]+$

Required: Yes

Response Syntax

{ "AccountId": "string", "Action": { "ActionId": "string", "ActionThreshold": { "ActionThresholdType": "string", "ActionThresholdValue": number }, "ActionType": "string", "ApprovalModel": "string", "BudgetName": "string", "Definition": { "IamActionDefinition": { "Groups": [ "string" ], "PolicyArn": "string", "Roles": [ "string" ], "Users": [ "string" ] }, "ScpActionDefinition": { "PolicyId": "string", "TargetIds": [ "string" ] }, "SsmActionDefinition": { "ActionSubType": "string", "InstanceIds": [ "string" ], "Region": "string" } }, "ExecutionRoleArn": "string", "NotificationType": "string", "Status": "string", "Subscribers": [ { "Address": "string", "SubscriptionType": "string" } ] }, "BudgetName": "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.

AccountId

The account ID of the user. It's a 12-digit number.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Fixed length of 12.

Pattern: \d{12}

Action

A budget action resource.

Type: Action object

BudgetName

A string that represents the budget name. The ":" and "\" characters, and the "/action/" substring, aren't allowed.

Type: String

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

Pattern: ^(?![^:\\]*/action/|(?i).*<script>.*</script>.*)[^:\\]+$

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

See Also

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

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