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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 Container Cost Breakdowns	Uses the preconfigured "Container Cost Insights" report as an example to describe how to view container cost breakdowns by cluster, namespace, workload, region, and cost tag.
	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.
	Viewing Cost Amortization Details of Resource Packages	Uses Object Storage Service (OBS) resource packages as an example to describe how to view amortized costs of resource packages.
	Viewing Cost Amortization Details of Reserved Instances	Describes how to view amortized costs of reserved instances.
	Viewing Cost Amortization Details of Savings Plans	Describes how to view amortized costs of savings plans.
	Viewing Monthly CDN Costs by Domain Name	Uses the preconfigured "Monthly CDN Costs by Domain Name " report to describe how to view amortized costs of Content Delivery Network (CDN) by domain name.
	Viewing AI Product Costs	Uses the preconfigured report "ModelArts Daily Costs" to describe how to view the cost analysis data of ModelArts Studio.
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.
	Viewing Split CDN Cost	Uses CDN as an example to describe how to view cost data by enterprise project, cost tag, and split item of a domain name.
	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.

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