Cost Management

Cost Composition

There are two cost components when you use AOM.

• Resource costs: depend on AOM billing items. For details, see Billing Items.
• O&M costs: labor costs incurred during the use of AOM.

Huawei Cloud Cost Center helps you manage resource costs with ease. However, you need to identify, manage, and optimize O&M costs by yourself.

Cost Allocation

A good cost accountability system ensures that departments, business teams, and owners are accountable for their respective cloud costs. Allocate costs to different teams or projects so that your organization has a clear picture of their respective costs.

Huawei Cloud Cost Center supports cost collection and reallocation with multiple tools.

• By linked account

  An enterprise master account can manage the accounting of associated member accounts. For details, see Viewing Costs by Linked Account.

• By enterprise project

  Before allocating costs, enable Enterprise Project Management Service (EPS) and plan your enterprise projects based on your organizational structure or service needs. Select an enterprise project when purchasing a pay-per-use cloud resource so that the costs of that resource will be categorized to the selected enterprise project. For details, see Viewing Costs by Enterprise Project.

• By cost tag

  Huawei Cloud assigns tags to your cloud resources so they can be sorted by purpose, owner, environment, or other dimensions. The following shows the procedure for managing costs by predefined tags.

  

  For details, see Viewing Costs by Cost Tag.

• By cost category

  You can use Cost Categories provided by Cost Center to split shared costs. Shared costs include the costs for the resources (compute, network, storage, or resource packages) shared across departments, and the costs that cannot be directly split by cost tag or enterprise project. These costs are not directly attributable to one owner, and hence cannot be categorized into one cost category. By defining split rules, you can fairly split these costs among teams or business units. For details, see Viewing Costs By Cost Category.

Cost Analysis

To precisely control and optimize your costs, you need a clear understanding of what parts of your enterprise incur costs. Cost Center visualizes your original costs or amortized costs using various dimensions and display filters. Analyze the trends and drivers of your service usage and costs from a variety of perspectives and scopes.

You can also use Cost Anomaly Detection provided by Cost Center to detect unexpected expenses in a timely manner. In this way, costs can be monitored, analyzed, and traced.

For details, see Making Cost Analysis to Explore Costs and Usage and Enabling Cost Anomaly Detection to Identify Anomalies.

Cost Optimization

• Cost control

  You can create different types of budgets on the Budgets page of Cost Center to track your costs against the budgeted amount you specified. If the budget thresholds you defined are reached, Cost Center will send alerts to the recipients you configured. You can also create budget reports and specify recipients to receive budget alerts at a specified interval.

  For details, see Creating Forecasts and Creating Budgets to Track Costs and Usage.

• Resource optimization

  You can monitor the usage of resources (such as the CPU, memory, and bandwidth) to evaluate whether your configurations are reasonable. Look for opportunities to save costs. You can also identify resources with high costs based on the results of Cost Analysis and optimize configurations accordingly.