# Reviewing and approving your budget action
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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 AWS Budgets page.

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**To review and approve your budget action**

1. On the **Budget details** page, in the **Alerts** section, choose **Requires approval**.

1. In the **Actions** pop-up, choose the name of the alert that requires an action.

1. On the **Alert details** page, in the **Action** section, review the action that requires approval.

1. Select the action that you want to run, and then choose **Run action**.

1. Choose **Yes, I am sure**.

Your pending actions move from the `pending` status in **Action history**, listing the newest actions at the top. AWS Budgets shows actions configured and run in the last 60 days. You can view the full history of actions by using AWS CloudTrail or by calling the `DescribeBudgetActionHistories` API.

## Reversing a previous action
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You can review and undo previously completed actions from the **Action history** table. Each status is defined as follows:
+ **Standby** - AWS Budgets is actively evaluating the action.
+ **Requires approval** - The action was initiated, and is waiting for your approval.
+ **Completed** - The action successfully completed.
+ **Reversed** - The action was undone, and AWS Budgets will no longer evaluate the action for the remaining budgeted period.

If you want AWS 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.