# Account Allocation

All AWS Accounts are at minimum allocated to 1 Financial Budget and define as an Account Type (Production, Pre-Production, Shared, Development or Sandbox).  To complete mapping the total allocation must be 100%.

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Accounts can be mapped to multiple budgets but need to have total allocation of 100%.

<figure><img src="/files/nSDZWlGAXHdzZaKzoXdc" alt=""><figcaption><p>Account Mapping Multiple Budgets</p></figcaption></figure>

Allocation can be updated to a new start date and allocation

<figure><img src="/files/k0OaAmGIpdvKRICOmlKd" alt=""><figcaption><p>Current Mapping</p></figcaption></figure>

Select Remap to update account allocation and start date

<figure><img src="/files/iucrtbwy8DlWIIFw8DJF" alt=""><figcaption><p>Update Allocation</p></figcaption></figure>

New allocation will history of allocations with current in green highlight. Effective dates of allocation are in Effective Column with the timestamp of updates in lower left of table.&#x20;

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