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Best Practices Overview

This document describes common application scenarios of the Cost Center, offering solution details and operation guidance to help you maximize its utility.

Cost Center Best Practices

Table 1 Cost Center best practices

Category

Best Practice

Description

Cost analysis

Viewing Multi-Dimensional Cost Breakdowns

Uses the preconfigured "Multi-Dimensional MTD Costs" report as an example to describe how to drill down into cost data by multiple dimensions.

Viewing Usage Analyses

Uses the preconfigured "Pay-Per-Use ECS Monthly Costs and Usage " report as an example to describe how to view usage analysis data of cloud service resources.

Budget management

Creating a Daily Budget to Monitor Pay-per-Use Expenditures

Uses the budget management function to monitor daily expenditures of pay-per-use resources and receive alerts when expenditures exceed or are about to exceed the budget.

Cost allocation

Allocating Costs by Cost Category

Uses the cost categorization function to customize multi-dimensional cost splitting rules and allocate costs as required.

Defining Shared Costs and Allocating Them to Enterprise Projects

Uses Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) as an example to describe how to allocate shared costs to different enterprise projects.

Cost anomaly detection

Analyzing Cost Anomalies

Describes how to locate the causes after receiving a cost anomaly notification.