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Where Can I Find the Cost Management Functions Originally Provided in the Billing Center? What Are the Differences Between the Cost Management Functions in the Billing Center and Those in the Cost Center?

Cost Center helps you monitor and explore your costs on HUAWEI CLOUD. Once enabled, your cost data will no longer be displayed in the Billing Center, but you will have access to robust new cost tracking and analysis tools in Cost Center. The first time you access Cost Center, HUAWEI CLOUD prepares your cost data from the last 18 months. The data will be available for viewing and analysis in about 24 hours after you enable Cost Center.

How to Find Cost Management Functions Originally in the Billing Center

Table 1 Cost management functions originally in the Billing Center and updates in the Cost Center

Cost Management in Billing Center

Cost Management in Cost Center

Updates

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Overview

Added the Overview page, where you can get a quick overview of your costs. See Overview for details.

Cost Breakdown

Cost Analysis
  • The functions originally available on Billing Center > Cost Breakdown/Cost Analysis are now provided on the Cost Center > Cost Analysis page. You can view the analyses of different cost types (such as original costs and amortized costs) from various dimensions. See Viewing Cost Analysis for details.
  • The monthly amortized costs originally available on Billing Center > Monthly Breakdown are now provided on the Cost Center > Cost Analysis page. You can click export records on the displayed page. See Exporting Cost Details for details.

Cost Analysis

Monthly Breakdown

Expenditure Budget

Budgets

Added Budgets to keep track of your costs and usage and send alerts if the thresholds you defined are reached. See Budgets for details.

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Reports > Analysis Reports

Added analysis reports. See Analysis Reports for details.

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Reports > Budget Reports

Added budget reports. See Budget Reports for details.

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Cost Tags

Added cost tags for more efficient management. See Cost Tags for details.

Export History

Export History

The functions remain the same.

Differences Between the Cost Management Functions in the Billing Center and Those in the Cost Center

Table 2 Differences between the cost management functions in the Billing Center and those in the Cost Center

Change

Cost Management in Billing Center

Cost Management in Cost Center

Amortization rules
  • The costs of pay-per-use resources are amortized based on the transaction day.
  • The costs of pay-per-use resources are amortized based on the day when the resources take effect. See Pay-per-Use Resources for details.

Cost analysis dimensions
  • Service Type
  • Region
  • Billing Mode
  • Linked Account
  • Business Entity
  • Enterprise Project
  • Service Type
  • Linked Account
  • Region
  • PayerAccount Name
  • Specification Code
  • Usage Type
  • Cost Tag
  • Enterprise Project
  • Resource
  • Bill Type
  • Billing Mode
  • Resource Type
  • AZ
  • Business Entity

Data precision for amortized costs

Rounded off to the 2nd decimal place.

Rounded off to the 8th decimal place. See Data Precision.

Data delay

Original costs and amortized costs may take 24 to 48 hours to display.

Original costs are provided in real time, but the amortized costs may still take 24 to 48 hours to display.

Historical data

Some historical costs were not amortized.

Some historical costs are now amortized.

Fine-grained permissions

The fine-grained permissions for Bills are used. The policies used are bss:bill:view (viewing the expenditure summary of an enterprise project) and bss:bill:update (exporting the expenditure summary of an enterprise project).

For details about fine-grained permissions policies, see Supported actions.

NOTE:

IAM users who have the bss:bill:view and bss:bill:update permissions still need to apply for additional permissions to use the Cost Center.
Parent topic: Enabling Cost Center