Cost Management

Cost Composition

The costs of using CSS depend on the service edition and resource packages you use. Billing items are different for each edition.

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 organizations have a clear picture of their respective costs.

Huawei Cloud Cost Center supports cost collection and reallocation with multiple tools for you to choose from.

• Allocate costs by linked account.

  The enterprise master account categorizes the costs of its member accounts to manage the accounting of these accounts. For details, see Viewing Costs by Linked Account.

• Allocate costs by enterprise project.

  Before allocating costs, enable Enterprise Project Management Service (EPS) and plan your enterprise projects based on your organizational structure or businesses. Select an enterprise project for a newly purchased cloud resource so that the costs of that resource will be allocated to the selected enterprise project. For details, see Viewing Costs by Enterprise Project.

  Figure 1 Selecting an enterprise project
  

• Allocate costs by cost tag.

  Huawei Cloud assigns sorting tags such as purpose, owner, or environment, to your cloud resources. These are the four steps for managing costs by predefined tags.

  

  Figure 2 Adding tags
  

For details, see Viewing Costs by Cost Tag.

• Allocate costs by cost category.

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

Cost Analysis

To accurately control and optimize your costs, you need a clear understanding of what parts of your enterprise incurred different costs. Cost Center visualizes your original costs or amortized costs using various dimensions and display filters for cost analysis so that you can analyze the trends and drivers of your service usage and costs from a variety of perspectives or within different defined 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 Performing Cost Analysis to Explore Costs and Usage and Performing Cost Analysis to Explore Costs and Usage.

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 and send alerts to the recipients you configured if the thresholds you defined are reached. You can also create budget reports and Huawei Cloud will periodically generate and send to the recipients you configured on a schedule you set.

  Suppose you want to create a monthly budget of $2,000 USD for pay-per-use CSS and expect to receive an alert if the forecasted amount exceeds 80% of the budgeted amount. You can refer to the following budget information.

  1. Specify your budget details, including the reset period and budgeted amount.
     Figure 3 Basic budget information
     
  2. Define a budget scope as required. In the left pane, filter service type, enterprise project, billing mode, and so on.
     Figure 4 Budget scope
     
  3. Set alert thresholds and recipients.
     The system should send an alarm when the forecast amount is greater than 80% of the budget amount.

     Figure 5 Budget alerts
     

For details, see Enabling Forecasting and Creating Budgets to Track Cost and Usage.