Cost Center
Cost Center
- 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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Getting Started with Cost Center
This section describes how to use Cost Center for cost analysis and optimization.
Confirming Your Cost Allocation Method
In Cost Center, there are three ways to allocate cost data: Organization Management, Cost Tags, and Enterprise Projects. You are advised to decide which method you plan to use as early as possible. For details, see Confirming Your Cost Allocation Method.
Using Grouping Tools to View Costs
- Viewing Costs by Linked Account: If you are using an enterprise master account, you can view your own costs and the costs of your member accounts by linked account.
- Viewing Costs by Enterprise Project: If you have enabled the Enterprise Project function, you can view your costs by enterprise project.
- Viewing Costs by Cost Tag: If you have created and activated cost tags, you can view your costs by cost tag.
- Viewing Costs By Cost Category: If Linked Account, Enterprise Project, and Cost Tags cannot meet your cost allocation requirements, you can use cost categories to define cost splitting rules and then view your costs based on these rules.
- Viewing Split CDN Costs: If you have monthly-settled Content Delivery Network (CDN) expenditures billed by traffic, you can view your costs by domain name.
- Mapping Cost Allocation Methods to Cost Category Rules: You can proportionally allocate shared costs (such as those from shared resources, platform services, and untagged costs) across an organization.
Making Cost Analysis to Explore Costs and Usage
You can analyze costs and usage in the following ways:
- Preconfigured Analysis Reports: Cost Center comes with several report types preconfigured with commonly used data display filters. You can explore your cost and usage data in analysis reports.
- Custom Analysis Reports: You can save your analysis results in a custom report so that you can run the same analysis again later if needed.
- Cost Tags: You can use cost tags to manage resources and activate them as needed to track your cloud costs.
- Cost Details: Cost Center provides you with amortized cost details, which can be exported as needed for further analysis.
- Forecasting: Cost and usage can be forecasted based on the cost analysis.
Creating Forecasts and Budgets to Track Costs and Usage
- Creating Budgets and Configuring Alerts: After Forecasting is enabled, you can view forecasted costs and usage in the cost analyses, and set budget alerts based on the forecasting results.
- Using Reports to Track Your Budget: You can create a budget report so that Cost Center will periodically email the report to you on a schedule that you configured.
Enabling Cost Anomaly Detection to Identify Anomalies
- Enabling Cost Anomaly Detection to Identify Anomalies: After you create a monitor, Cost Center applies its detection rules to identify cost anomalies and report them in a timely manner.
Changing Billing Modes to Optimize Costs
You can optimize your costs in the following ways:
- Evaluating Cost Optimization Option of Changing the Billing Mode from Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly: If you want to use pay-per-use products for an extended period, you might want to consider changing the billing mode from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly to reduce costs. With this option, Cost Center analyzes the usage of your pay-per-use resources and identifies places where you can save money.
- Analyzing RI Utilization and Coverage: Cost Center analyzes the utilization of reserved instances (RIs) you purchased. If your RIs are underutilized, you may have purchased too many. If the coverage of your RIs is too low, you may have under-purchased RIs. By analyzing your usage patterns, you can determine whether you need to adjust your plan on purchasing RIs for the next period.
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