What's New

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Support for selecting enterprise projects by linked account

An enterprise master account can select enterprise projects by linked account, except the default enterprise project and those not categorized.

Commercial use

Viewing Cost Analyses

Creating a Budget

Overview of Cost Optimization

Managing Cost Categories

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Support for cost forecasting in the grace period for yearly/monthly subscriptions

The grace period is considered when original costs of the yearly/monthly subscriptions are forecasted. Such cost forecasting is based on the following assumption: If auto-renewal is not enabled, resources will be renewed within the grace period.

Commercial use

Forecasting

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Support for hourly cost analysis

In Cost Center, Hourly Cost Analysis is available on the Preferences page. Customers can enable or disable this function.

If customers enable this function, Cost Center will present their original costs by the hour from the last 14 days on the Cost Analysis page.

Commercial use

Viewing Cost Analyses

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[Cost Optimization Recommendations] Support for resource rightsizing recommendations from OA

After customers enable Optimization Advisor (OA), they can obtain recommendations for rightsizing EIP, ELB, and EVS resources from OA.

Commercial use

Rightsizing EVS

EIP

and ELB Resources

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Cost categories applicable to historical billing cycles

When customers are creating or editing cost categories, they can configure a look-back period for up to last 12 months.

On the Cost Allocation > Cost Categories page in Cost Center, the following setting is available:

Commercial use

Managing Cost Categories

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Support for searching resources by name or ID under the Resource Name/ID filter

Customers can search resources by name or ID under the Resource Name/ID filter for cost analysis.

Commercial use

Viewing Cost Analyses

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Pop-up messages available for reminding customer to verify the email address or mobile number

On the Budgets, Cost Anomaly Detection, Cost Optimization, and Budget Reports pages of Cost Center, if the notification methods configured for alert notifications have not been verified, customers will encounter a pop-up message, reminding them to verify the notification methods. Customers can follow the instructions to verify the email address or mobile number.

Commercial use

Creating a Budget

Configuring Alert Notifications

Cost Optimization Overview

Budget Reports

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Support for displaying the data export progress

In Cost Center, when customers choose Export History to export a file, they will see the progress bar. After the export is completed, they can click Download in the Operation column to download the file.

Commercial use

Export History

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Support for exporting cost optimization recommendations

Customers can export all cost optimization recommendations on the Cost Optimization page and determine whether to apply the recommendations in dimensions they select.

Commercial use

Exporting Cost Optimization Recommendations

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Different recipients configurable for alert notifications with different monitors

Customers now can create alert notifications and specify different recipients for different monitors in the following steps:

1. Log in to Cost Center, choose Cost Anomaly Detection > Alert Notifications, and click Create Notification in the upper right corner of the page.

2. Configure notification details and specify notification recipients.

Commercial use

Enabling Alerts

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Support for Compute Savings Plans

Cost Center now provides recommendations for purchasing Compute Savings Plans based on historical pay-per-use expenditures. It also provides the estimated commitment value that will bring the largest savings.

Commercial use

Purchasing Savings Plans

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Generated costs taken into account for calculating the current-month forecasted cost

On the Overview and Cost Analysis pages, cost data is now collected by the day to improve the accuracy of cost forecasting. In addition, the current-month forecasted cost is now calculated by adding together the actual cost generated in the past days of the month and the forecasted cost in the coming days of the month.

Commercial use

Forecasting

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UX optimization for Cost Anomaly Detection

1. On the Cost Anomaly Detection page in Cost Center, the Cost Anomaly Detection Summary area is now provided to show the number of anomalies pending feedback, the number of cost anomalies from the last 30 days, and the cost impact from the last 30 days.

2. In the Feedback area, the Reasons field has been added for customers to select specific anomaly reasons.

Commercial use

Viewing Anomaly History

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Support for custom display of Top 5 Costs By MoM Growth ($) on the Cost Center overview page

On the Overview page in Cost Center, when customers click Select Dimensions in the Top 5 Costs by MoM Growth area, they can toggle on or off the switches to show or hide the dimensions, drag and drop them to change the order they are displayed in, and choose which cost tag or cost category is by default displayed to group costs.

Commercial use

Overview

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Integration of cost optimization recommendations

When customers log in to Cost Center and choose Cost Optimization, all of the cost optimization recommendations and estimated savings are displayed. Currently, only billing mode change opportunities are available. Customers can locate a specific cost optimization opportunity and click View Details in the Operation column to view its details. They can optimize the costs for the applicable resources as needed.

Commercial use

Cost Optimization Overview

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Uncategorized costs available for cost category rules involving enterprise projects

When customers log in to Cost Center to create or update a cost category, if they select Enterprise Project as a condition for creating a rule, Not categorized is included as an option.

Commercial use

Cost Category Management

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Support for cost amortization in Whole Site Acceleration (WSA)

On the Preferences page in Cost Center, when customers enable cost splitting, WSA costs can be split. WSA expenditures billed by traffic, 95 peak bandwidth, or daily average peak bandwidth, together with value-added service expenditures billed by the number of requests, can be split by domain name. In addition to enterprise project for a specific domain name, the costs can also be split by cost tag for the domain name.

Commercial use

Enabling Cost Splitting

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List price used as the basis for calculating the cost recommendations of changing pay-per-use to yearly/monthly

In Cost Center, the cost optimization recommendations for changing pay-per-use to yearly/monthly are all calculated based on the list price, without taking commercial discounts into account. They may differ from actual payments and are provided solely for reference.

Commercial use

Yearly/Monthly Subscriptions

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[Support for enterprise project-specific cost management] Changing the billing mode from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly

When customers log in to Cost Center and choose Cost Optimization > Yearly/Monthly Subscriptions, they can view the newly added filter Enterprise Project. With this filter, customers can search or filter the cost optimization options of changing pay-per-use to yearly/monthly by enterprise project.

Commercial use

Yearly/Monthly Subscriptions

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Support for creating savings plan utilization and coverage budgets

Customers can create savings plan utilization and coverage budget in Cost Center.

1. Log in to Cost Center and choose Budgets > Create Budget. Then, select Savings plan utilization budget and Savings plan coverage budget.

2. Set the budget details.

3. Add recipients to receive alerts when the savings plan utilization and coverage thresholds are reached.

Commercial use

Creating a Budget

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Support for unified cost management of savings plans with unified accounting

• Effects of switching between enterprise master and member accounts on amortized costs of savings plans: Costs are amortized based on the billing cycle. If the master and member accounts are switched on the current day, the amortized costs are allocated to different accounts by hour and proportion.

  For example: If the amortized cost of a savings plan is $240 USD per day and the member account is disassociated from the master account and becomes an individual account at 03:15 on a day, the amortized cost of the master account on the day is 240 x (3/24) = $20 USD, and the amortized cost of the individual customer is = 240 x (21/24) = $220 USD.

• Effects of switching between enterprise master and member accounts on the utilization and coverage of savings plans:

  • The master account owner can use the filter Linked Account to select specific member accounts and analyze the utilization and coverage of the savings plans used by the member accounts during unified accounting management. The master account owner is not allowed to access member accounts' data for savings plans used when the accounts were not associated for unified accounting.

  • Member accounts can view only the savings plan utilization and coverage during the association period. If they are no longer associated with the master account and have become individual customers, they will be able to access the savings plan utilization and coverage data during the disassociation period but not those data during the association period.

Commercial use

Cost Management for Enterprises

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Support for sharing savings plans benefits between enterprise master and member accounts

When customers log in to Cost Center as the enterprise master account, they can view savings plan recommendations by organization based on historical expenditures within the sharing scope of the master and member accounts.

Customers can choose Savings Plans > Recommendations > Recommendation Level to view recommendations by organization or account.

● Organization: Recommendations are generated at the management account level. They consider usage across all member accounts in the organization.

● Account: Recommendations are generated for the individual account or at the member account level under unified accounting management.

Commercial use

Following Cost Optimization Recommendations

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Support for savings plan utilization analysis

When customers log in to Cost Center and choose Savings Plans > Analysis > Savings Plan Utilization, they can view the utilization of savings plans within a specified period, including the total savings, pay-per-use cost equivalent, and amount deducted from the savings plan.

Open beta testing

Viewing Utilization and Coverage

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Support for savings plan coverage analysis

When customers log in to the Cost Center and choose Savings Plans > Analysis > Savings Plan Coverage, they can view the coverage of savings plans within the specified period. Savings plan coverage = Amount deducted from the savings plan/(Amount deducted from the savings plan + Cost of eligible usage not covered by the savings plan) x 100%

Open beta testing

Viewing Utilization and Coverage

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Support for changing from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use

In Cost Center, Refund-change to pay-per-use is included in Bill Type on the pages for cost analysis, budget management, and cost categories.

Commercial use

Viewing Cost Analyses

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Support for Huawei Cloud Savings Plans

Huawei Cloud offers Savings Plans, a new pricing model. ECS Savings Plans are currently available. Customers can get lower prices in exchange for a commitment to use a specified amount of resources (measured in USD/hour) for a one- or three-year term. Customers' hourly usage covered by the savings plan commitment will be billed only the hourly commitment at a discounted rate, while the hourly usage beyond the commitment will be billed at the standard rate. 

Open beta testing

Huawei Cloud Savings Plans

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Navigation menus adjusted

Cost Center navigation menus are adjusted to show cost optimization recommendations and cost allocation tools more distinctly.

Commercial use

Introduction

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Cost Center overview upgraded for better user experience

The new Overview page gives a quick overview of the current month costs, cost optimization recommendations, cost anomalies identified, and budgets.

Commercial use

Overview

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Enterprise projects without any expenditures available for cost category rules

When you define cost category rules, you can now select enterprise projects that have not incurred any expenditures.

Commercial use

Cost Category Management

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Operations in Cost Center interconnected to CTS

1. With Cloud Trace Service (CTS), the key operations in Cost Center can be reported to CTS for further query, audit, and backtracking.

2. When you log in to the CTS console, you can filter Cost Center operations by Trace Source and Resource Type to view the operation records for the last seven days.

Commercial use

Supported Cost Center Operations

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Abbreviations added for cloud service names

On the Cost Analysis page of Cost Center, abbreviations are now provided for the cloud service names displayed in the Cloud Service column when cost data is grouped by usage type, resource name/ID, or specifications.

Note: Abbreviations are displayed only when available.

Commercial use

Viewing Cost Analyses

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Maximum number of filtering items changed

On the Cost Analysis and Budgets page of Cost Center, customers can now select up to 20 items for a level-1 option and up to 50 items for a level-2 option at a time under the filter Cost Category or Cost Tag.

Commercial use

Quotas and Restrictions

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URL shortened to easily share cost analysis reports

The URL length for Share Link on the Cost Analysis page is shortened, with only necessary parameter information included.

Commercial use

Viewing Cost Analyses

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Shared CDN costs split by cost tag for a specific domain name

When customers enable cost splitting in Cost Center, they can split CDN costs by domain name if the CDN resources are billed by traffic, 95 peak bandwidth, or daily average peak bandwidth. As of May, 2023, in addition to enterprise project for a specific domain name, the costs can also be split by cost tag for the domain name.

Suppose you changed the tag value of CDN resources from N to M on April 9, 2023. If you want to split costs on May 4, 2023, the amortized costs for April would be attributed to tag M.

Commercial use

Enabling Cost Splitting