Introduction

Huawei Cloud Cost Center provides various tools for you to group your costs in different ways. You can experiment with different tools to find out which way works best for your needs.

Supported Grouping Tools

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Basic tools: You can view your costs by linked account, enterprise project, or cost tag.
Advanced tools: You can also use cost categories to group and split your costs. If you have purchased monthly-settled CDN billed by traffic, you can split your CDN traffic costs by domain name.
- Viewing Cost By Cost Category

Recommendations

User-based cost allocation: Costs are attributed to the actual user.
For example, if you are using an enterprise member account and your master account is the payer account, then the relevant costs are still considered to be yours.
Amortization-based cost allocation: Costs are amortized over a set period of time.
Amortized costs reflect the amounts prepaid for yearly/monthly subscriptions and reserved instances, which are amortized on a daily basis. For example, if you purchase a one-year cloud service at $365 USD, the amortized cost per day is $1 USD.
Cost splitting: Shared costs are split based on certain rules.
- Proportionally: Your costs are allocated in proportion to the weight of each target.
  For example, if the cost of target B is $800 USD and that of target C is $200 USD, you can split costs based on a set proportion, such as B: C = 4:1. Then 80% of the costs will be allocated to target B and 20% to target C.
- Evenly: Your costs are allocated evenly across different targets.
  For example, if there are two targets (A and B), then 50% of the costs will be allocated to target A and 50% to target B.
- Custom: Your costs are allocated based on a percentage you define for each target value. The percentages must add up to 100%.

Cost Allocation Details Delivered By Using Different Grouping Tools

When you view cost details by linked account, enterprise project, or cost tag, you can also obtain cost allocation details for further analysis.

**Table 1** Grouping tools for different cost types and allocation methods
Cost Type	Allocation Method	Grouping Tool	Allocation Details
Original costs	Linked Account	Log in to Billing Center, and choose Billing> Bills > Overview. Log in to Cost Center, and access the Cost Analysis page.	Log in to Billing Center, and access the Billing > Bills > Bill Details page. Log in to Cost Center, and access the Cost Analysis page to export the monthly original cost details.
	Enterprise Project	Log in to Billing Center, and choose Billing> Bills > Overview. Log in to Cost Center, and access the Cost Analysis page.	Log in to Billing Center, and access the Billing > Bills > Bill Details page. Log in to Cost Center, and access the Cost Analysis page to export the monthly original cost details.
	Tag	Log in to Cost Center, and access the Cost Analysis page.	Log in to Billing Center, and access the Billing > Bills > Bill Details page. The details contain unstructured data of the original tags. Log in to Cost Center, and access the Cost Analysis page to export the monthly original cost details with structured data of the cost tags included.
Amortized costs	Linked Account	Log in to Cost Center, and access the Cost Analysis page.	Log in to Cost Center, and access the Cost Analysis page to export the monthly amortized cost details.
	Enterprise Project	Log in to Cost Center, and access the Cost Analysis page.	Log in to Cost Center, and access the Cost Analysis page to export the monthly amortized cost details.
	Tag	Log in to Cost Center, and access the Cost Analysis page.	Log in to Cost Center, and access the Cost Analysis page to export the monthly amortized cost details.

You can view and export bill details on the Bill Details page. Alternatively, you can subscribe to bill details via OBS or call relevant APIs to obtain bill details.

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