# Control costs with a budget
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The Deadline Cloud budget manager helps you control spending on a queue. You can create budget amounts and limits, and set automated actions to help reduce or stop additional spending against the budget. Each budget tracks the estimated cost of one queue, so you can give each project, department, or vendor its own queue and its own spending cap.

![The budget manager showing active budgets with status, resource, remaining percentage, and remaining amount.](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/deadline-cloud/latest/userguide/images/monitor/budget-manager.png)


The following sections provide you with the steps for using the Deadline Cloud budget manager.

**Topics**
+ [Prerequisite](#budget-manager-prereqs)
+ [Open the Deadline Cloud budget manager](#access-budget-manager)
+ [How budget actions affect running and new work](budget-actions.md)
+ [Create a budget for a Deadline Cloud queue](create-budget.md)
+ [View a Deadline Cloud queue budget](view-a-budget.md)
+ [Edit a budget for a Deadline Cloud queue](edit-a-budget.md)
+ [Deactivate a budget for a Deadline Cloud queue](deactivate-a-budget.md)
+ [Monitor a budget with EventBridge events](budget-threshold-events.md)

## Prerequisite
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To use the Deadline Cloud budget manager, you must have `OWNER` access level. To grant `OWNER` permission, follow the steps in [Managing users in Deadline Cloud](managing-users.md).

## Open the Deadline Cloud budget manager
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To open the Deadline Cloud budget manager, use the following procedure.

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Deadline Cloud [ console](https://us-west-2.console.aws.amazon.com/deadlinecloud/home).

1. Choose **View farms**. 

1. Locate the farm that you want to get information about, then choose **Manage jobs**.

1. In the Deadline Cloud monitor, in the left navigation pane, choose **Budgets**.

The budget manager summary page displays a list of both active and inactive budgets: 
+ **Active** budgets track against the selected resource (a queue). 
+ **Inactive** budgets have either expired or been canceled by a user, and are no longer tracking costs against this budget's limits. 

After you choose a budget, the budget summary page contains basic information about the budget. Information provided includes the budget name, status, resources, remaining percentage, remaining amount, total budget, start date, and end date.