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
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
Change |
Cost Management in Billing Center |
Cost Management in Cost Center |
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Amortization rules |
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Cost analysis dimensions |
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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. |
Overview FAQs
- 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?
- What Are the Differences Between Bill Amount and Amortized Amount?
- Why Are There Slight Data Differences on Cost Center Pages?
- How Do I Apply for Access to Cost Center As a Reseller Customer?
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