TCO Analysis (Bill)

Notes and Constraints

• The supported source cloud is AWS.
• The system can map 17 AWS products such as EC2, RDS, and S3 to Huawei Cloud alternatives. Any products not supported will be excluded from the analysis.
  • Amazon EC2 (Compute)
  • Amazon EC2 (EBS)
  • Amazon EC2 (NAT Gateway)
  • Amazon RDS (MySQL)
  • Amazon RDS (Aurora MySQL)
  • Amazon EKS (Fargate)
  • Amazon ECS (Fargate)
  • Amazon Data Transfer
  • Amazon VPC (VPN)
  • Amazon VPC (VPCEP)
  • Amazon ElastiCache
  • Amazon DocumentDB
  • Amazon ELB
  • Amazon S3
  • Amazon DynamoDB
  • Amazon CloudWatch
  • Amazon ECR
• A maximum of 100 analysis tasks can be created in each MgC migration project, and the task names must be unique.
• The bill file to be uploaded must meet the following requirements:
  • The file must be a PDF file in English or Portuguese. Image PDF files are not supported.
  • The file size cannot exceed 50 MB.
  • The file name cannot contain spaces.

Preparations

• Create a migration project.

  On the MgC console, create a migration project. For details, see Managing Migration Projects.

• Download AWS bills.
  1. Open the AWS Billing and Cost Management console.
  2. On the Bills page, select the month for Billing period. Under the AWS bill summary section, confirm that the Bill status appears as Issued.

     

  3. Click Print in the upper right corner of the page, select the content to be printed, and click Print. Highest cost and Charges by service are mandatory.

     

  4. In the displayed dialog box, select Save as PDF and click Save.

Creating an Analysis Task

1. Sign in to the MgC console.
2. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Research > Surveys. In the upper left corner of the page, select the migration project created in Preparations.
3. Click the TCO Analysis (Bill) card and click Create Analysis Task. If you are using this function for the first time, you need to delegate MgC certain permission. After you agree to the authorization, the Create Analysis Task page is displayed on the right.

   

4. Enter a task name, select the region you want to migrate to, and click Select File to upload the exported bill file to MgC.

   

5. Click Confirm. After the task is submitted, you can view the task status, total source cost, and total Huawei Cloud cost.

   

   When the task status changes to Completed, you can perform the following operations:

   • View product mappings. You can view what and how many source products you used, whether there are Huawei Cloud alternatives, and what are the alternatives.
   • Modifying product mappings: You can manually modify the product mappings.
   • Configuring discount assumptions to adjust the prices of Huawei Cloud alternatives and further optimize the cost on Huawei Cloud.
   • Export cost analysis results. You can download the analysis results to your local PC for manual adjustment and analysis.

Viewing Product Mappings

After the cost analysis task is complete, you can view the types and quantities of all products identified from the source bills, whether there are Huawei Cloud alternatives, and what are the alternatives.

In the bill-based analysis task list, click the task name in the Task Name column. On the task details page, view the product mapping details.

Figure 1 Viewing product mappings

Modifying Product Mappings

Regardless of whether the system finds target products that match source products, you can manually configure target resource configurations, such as the type, specifications, and usage. This helps more accurately estimate the monthly cost of running workloads on the target platform.

1. In the bill-based analysis task list, click the task name in the Task Name column.
2. In the product mapping list, click Modify in the Operation column.
   Figure 2 Modifying product mappings
   

3. In the Target Product Summary area, select the category, product, and specifications as required. The system will recalculate the monthly cost based on your modification.
   After confirming your modifications, click Save.

   Figure 3 Modifying target resource configurations
   

Configuring Discount Assumptions

You can configure discount assumptions for individual Huawei Cloud products to save more money. For more detailed information on available discounts, you can contact the Huawei Cloud commercial representative.

1. In the bill-based analysis task list, click the task name in the Task Name column.
2. In the upper right corner of the page, click Modify next to Discount.
   Figure 4 Modifying discount assumptions
   

3. Adjust the discount of each product based on the actual discount obtained from the Huawei Cloud commercial representative. You can configure the following two parameters to modify the discount for all products in a batch or one by one.
   • Discount for All: This option is used to configure a discount for all products in a batch. You can then adjust the discount individually for each product as needed.
   • Product Discounts: You can configure a discount for each product separately. Your settings will not change Discount for All. Individual product discounts are factored in the cost calculations.

4. After setting the discounts for all products, click Save. Then the system calculates the cost of running on Huawei Cloud based on the discounts you set.

Exporting Cost Analysis Results

After a cost analysis task is complete, you can download the analysis results to your local PC for manual adjustment and analysis.

• Method 1: In the bill-based analysis task list, locate the task and click Export in the Operation column. Then the analysis results will be downloaded as an Excel file.

  

• Method 2: On the task details page, click Export in the upper right corner of the page. Then the analysis results will be downloaded as an Excel file.