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Analyzing the Cost of Savings Plans

You can use the cost analysis function in Cost Center to view the original costs, amortized costs, and usage details of your purchased savings plans.

Viewing Original Costs

  1. Log in to Cost Center.
  2. Choose Cost Insights > Cost Analysis.
  3. Set Grouped By to Billing Mode. Under Filters, include Savings Plans in Billing Mode.
  4. View the original costs of your savings plans over the selected period.

  5. View the details of the original costs.

    1. Choose Cost Insights > Cost Details Export and access the Export to Local Directory page.
    2. Set Cost Type to Original costs. Then, click Export.
      In the exported file, filter the records with Billing Mode being Savings Plans.
      • Service Type: type of the purchased savings plan, for example, ECS Savings Plan.
      • Bill Type
        • Expenditure - purchase: expenditures paid up front for purchasing a savings plan
        • Refund - unsubscription: refund for the unsubscription from a savings plan
        • Expenditure - hourly billing: hourly expenditures of a savings plan