# Copying a budget
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You can copy an existing budget to a new one. By doing this, you can retain the filters and notification settings from your original budget, or change them. Billing and Cost Management automatically populates the fields on the page that you create the new budget on. You can update the budget parameters on this page. <a name="budgets-copy-proc"></a>

**To copy a budget**

1. Open the Billing and Cost Management console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/](https://console.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/).

1. On the navigation pane, choose **Budgets**.

1. From the list of budgets, select the budget that you want to copy.

1. At the top of the page, choose **Actions**, and then choose **Copy**.

1. Change the parameters that you want to update. You must change the budget name.

1. After you make any necessary changes on each page, choose **Next**.

1. Choose **Copy budget**.