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Getting Started

Getting Started

Getting Started provides four core scenarios that guide you through your cloud financial management journey. It helps you learn how to use tools to achieve your work goals in each scenario. You can view guidelines, click specific functions, and access documents to learn more information. The core scenarios involve:

  • Cost Insights: Presents cost breakdowns and trends and identifies cost anomalies in a timely manner.
  • Cost Organization: Organizes your costs across meaningful business semantics, such as teams, projects, and applications.
  • Budget Management: Allows you to create budgets, receive overrun alerts, and track your budgets.
  • Cost Optimization: Offers appropriate billing modes and identifies idle resources to help lower your costs.
Table 1 Description

Scenario

Work Goal

Description

Reference

Cost Insights

Analyzing costs

Analyze your costs with preconfigured or custom reports, learn how your costs are broken down, review cost trends, and forecast your costs.

Cost Analysis

Detecting cost anomalies

Identify any unexpected cost spikes and receive alerts.

Cost Anomaly Detection

Obtaining cost details

Export original costs, amortized costs, and usage details to OBS (in OBT).

Cost Details Export

Analyzing costs for longer term and at finer granularity

Enable hourly cost analysis and monthly multi-year cost analysis.

Preferences

Analyzing CCE cluster costs

Learn about the cost breakdowns and trends of CCE clusters by namespace or workload.

Cost Analysis

Splitting shared costs of certain services

Enable cost splitting. Only some of CDN, WSA, and Live traffic costs can be split by domain name.

Viewing Split CDN Costs

Analyzing effective cost in a given billing cycle

Amortize costs of prepaid resources, such as those in yearly/monthly subscriptions and resource packages, on a daily basis to display the effective costs over the selected time range.

What Are Amortized Costs?

Cost Organization

Allocating costs by cost identifier

Use cost tags or enterprise projects to identify resources and allocate costs.

Confirming Your Cost Allocation Method

Creating cost mapping rules

Use cost categories to create custom rules to map costs to Huawei Cloud cost organization methods (linked accounts, enterprise projects, cost tags, and cost categories), helping you manage costs from your own service perspective.

Viewing Costs By Cost Category

Splitting shared costs

Proportionally allocate shared costs (such as shared resources, platform services, and untagged costs) across an organization.

Mapping Cost Allocation Methods to Cost Category Rules

Analyzing costs by allocation method

Understand your costs and usage by allocation method, for example, by linked account, enterprise project, cost tag, or cost category.

Cost Analysis

Budget Management

Creating and tracking budgets

Quickly create budgets for service types or business units, zero spend budgets, or create custom budgets with parameters specific to your use case. You can configure alerts to warn you if your budget has been exceeded or is forecasted to be exceeded.

Budgets

Monitoring budget performance

Create and receive daily, weekly, and monthly reports to monitor the performance of your budgets.

Budget Reports

Tracking utilization and coverage

Set a utilization or coverage target for savings plans and reserved instances. You can configure alerts to warn you if the actual utilization or coverage is below the target.

Budgets

Cost Optimization

Identifying cost optimization opportunities

Identify the opportunities for optimizing resources and changing billing modes to save costs.

Cost Optimization

Getting savings plans purchase recommendations

Get recommendations for purchasing savings plans based on your historical pay-per-use usage.

Following Cost Optimization Recommendations

Analyzing reserved instance utilization

Analyze how reserved instances are applied to your usage to help you determine whether they are fully utilized.

Analyzing RIs

Analyzing reserved instance coverage

Check how much of your pay-per-use usage is covered by reserved instances to determine whether they are enough.

Analyzing RIs

Viewing savings plans summary

Review savings plans-saved costs and optimization opportunities, and view your inventory of all savings plans.

What Are Savings Plans?

Analyzing savings plans utilization

Analyze how savings plans are applied to your usage to help you determine whether they are fully utilized.

Viewing the Usage of Savings Plans

Analyzing savings plans coverage

Check how much of your pay-per-use usage is covered by savings plans to determine whether they are enough.

Viewing the Usage of Savings Plans