- What's New
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Getting Started
- Getting Started with Cost Center
- Confirming Your Cost Allocation Method
- Using Grouping Tools to View Costs
- Making Cost Analysis to Explore Costs and Usage
- Creating Forecasts and Budgets to Track Costs and Usage
- Enabling Cost Anomaly Detection to Identify Anomalies
- Changing Billing Modes to Optimize Costs
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User Guide
- Upgrade Description (New Edition)
- About Cost Center
- Overview
- Overview (New Edition)
- Cost Assistant (New Edition)
- Getting Started
- Cost Analysis
- Cost and Usage Forecasting
- Budgets
- Budget Management (New Edition)
- Cost Anomaly Detection
- Cost Optimization
- Savings Plans (in OBT)
- Cost Allocation
- Reports
- Exporting Cost Details
- Preferences
- Export History
- Cost Management for Enterprises
- Permissions
- Quotas and Constraints
- Auditing
- Best Practices
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FAQs
- Overview
- Accessing Cost Center
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Cost Analysis
- How Do I View the Costs of My Member Accounts?
- Why Can't I View My Cost History?
- What Are Costs Tagged with "Not Categorized"?
- When Is noTagKey Used?
- Why Can't I Find My Created Tags?
- How Do I View Amortized Costs over a Specific Period?
- What Is Cost Data?
- What Are Amortized Costs?
- Why Are My Costs Negative?
- Budgets
- Cost Optimization
- Cost Tags
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Cost Categories
- What Is a Cost Category and How Does It Work?
- When Do I Need to Create a Cost Category?
- What Does It Mean by Using Existing Rules for a Cost Category?
- What Is the Default Category?
- Can I Create Nested or Hierarchical Cost Categories?
- What Are Splitting Rules?
- Can I View Cost Splitting Results on Cost Analysis and Budget Management Pages?
- Alert Notifications
- Cost Details Export
Preferences
Cost Amortization
Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly
When this function is enabled, Cost Center will analyze the usage of your pay-per-use ECS, EVS, RDS, ELB, and SFS Turbo resources and provide the optimization option of changing the billing mode from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly to help you find cost-saving opportunities. For details, see Changing Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly.
NOTE:
This function is enabled by default. You can disable it at will.
If you are using a member account associated with a master account for unified accounting management, this function can only be disabled by the master account.
ECS Resource Optimization
When this function is enabled, Cost Center will monitor your historical expenditures and resource usage, identify idle resources, check the resource status, and provide optimization recommendations to help you find cost saving opportunities. For details, see Overview of Resource Optimization.
Hourly Cost Analysis
When this function is enabled, Cost Center will present original costs by the hour from the last 14 days. For details, see Viewing Cost Analyses.
Monthly Multi-Year Cost Analysis
When this function is enabled, Cost Center will present monthly analysis of cost data going back as far as the last 38 months. For details, see Viewing Cost Analyses.
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