- What's New
- Hands-On Tutorials
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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 (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)
- Reserved Instances
- Cost Allocation
- Exporting Cost Details
- Preferences
- Export History
- Cost Management for Enterprises
- Permissions
- Quotas and Constraints
- Auditing
- Best Practices
- API Reference
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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?
- How Do I Know the Creator of Resources That Incurred Expenditures (Costs)?
- What Are Costs Tagged with "Not Categorized"?
- What Costs Are Marked with noTagKey?
- 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
- General Reference
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What Is a Cost Category and How Does It Work?
A cost category is a tool that can automatically group your costs based on the rules you configure, such as linked account, service type, bill type, cost tag, and enterprise project, or even the customized rules of other cost categories. There are multiple ways of looking at your business, for example, in terms of departments, projects, or applications. A cost category is a unique way, and you can create multiple cost categories accordingly.
You can define split rules to allocate shared costs across your cost categories, for example, the costs for the resources (network, storage, or resource packages) shared across departments or the costs that cannot be directly split by cost tag or enterprise project configured for the resources. Currently, only net original costs (actual payment) and net amortized costs (amortized actual payment) can be split.
Once cost categories are created or edited, you will be able to view your cost and usage information by these categories starting at the beginning of the month. After you create a cost category, it can take up to four hours to apply the cost category for cost analysis, anomaly detection, and budget management. You can use the cost categories to summarize or filter costs and usage. You can learn about the application of cost categories in the exported cost details where each created category is displayed in a separate column.
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