Cost Management

Updated on 2025-01-07 GMT+08:00

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The following describes how to manage costs in terms of cost composition, allocation, analysis, and optimization. Optimizing costs can help you maximize return on investment.

Cost Composition

CodeArts PerfTest costs consist of two parts:

VU: number of virtual concurrent users during a CodeArts PerfTest pressure test
Pressure test duration: duration of a pressure test, in minutes and accurate to seconds

The billing of CodeArts PerfTest does not include the fees of compute resources such as CCE and ECS, network resources such as ELB and EIP, and storage resources such as OBS.

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 provides multiple tools for cost collection and reallocation. Choose to 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.
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.

For details, see Viewing Costs by Cost Tag.

Cost category
Cost Categories provided by Cost Center help you 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 Costs 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. Analyze the trends and drivers of your service usage and costs from a variety of perspectives and scopes.

Cost Anomaly Detection provided by Cost Center also detects unexpected expenses promptly for tracing, monitoring, and analysis. For details, see Performing Cost Analysis to Explore Costs and Usage and Enabling Cost Anomaly Detection to Identify Anomalies.

Cost Optimization

The pay-per-use billing mode allows you to flexibly adjust resource usage. You neither need to prepare for resources in advance, nor end up with excessive or insufficient preset resources.

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