Upgrade Description (New Edition)

Easier Navigation

Navigation menus have been reorganized to streamline your cloud cost management experience. The new navigation provides clear direction on where to go to find Cost Assistant, Cost Insights, Cost Organization, Budget Management, and Cost Optimization.

Comprehensive Cost Overview

1. The layout of Cost Management Overview has been optimized to give you quick convenient view of your costs, including month-to-date costs, forecasted month-end costs, actual budget overruns/forecasted budget overruns, cost anomalies from the last 30 days, and estimated monthly savings.

   

2. The breakdown of current month costs has been added. You can now view your current month costs in multiple dimensions, for example, by service type, enterprise project, cost tag, cost category, linked account, and region.

   

3. Cost Assistant, an all-new feature, has been rolled out. It offers maturity scores and insight recommendations to help you manage costs better.

   

4. Cost allocation details have been added. You can now choose a specific method to view cost allocation details from a particular service respective.

   

Scenario-specific Cost Analysis

1. You can now check a variety of reports recommended for typical cost analysis scenarios, and you can add reports to your favorites for faster cost analysis.

   

2. On cost analysis pages, browsing views are now distinguished from action views. Specifically, Cost and Usage Summary illustrates key cost data and breakdown, and available actions are sorted by operation type on the right, giving you a better experience.

   

Simpler Budget Creation

There are a wide range of budget templates available for common scenarios to make budget creation simpler.

Diverse Functions

Cost Center provides the following functions.