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Updated on 2023-10-31 GMT+08:00

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

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

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Budgets

Added budget management. 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.

Reserved Instance Reports

Reserved Instances

The functions remain the same. See Reserved Instances for details.

Cost Allocation Tags

Cost Tags

The functions remain the same. See Cost Tags for details.

Export History

Export History

The functions remain the same.

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

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

Change

Cost Management in Billing Center

Cost Management in Cost Center

Amortization rules

  • The costs of your yearly/monthly subscriptions are amortized based on the tags obtained in real time.

Cost analysis dimensions

  • Service Type
  • Region
  • Billing Mode
  • Linked Account
  • Business Entity
  • Specification Code
  • Usage Type
  • Bill Type
  • Tag
  • 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 Cost Center.

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