Getting Started

Updated on 2025-01-21 GMT+08:00

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Getting Started provides four core scenarios that guide you through your cloud financial management journey. It helps you learn how to use tools to achieve your work goals in each scenario. You can view guidelines, click specific functions, and access documents to learn more information. The core scenarios involve:

Cost Insights: Presents cost breakdowns and trends and identifies cost anomalies in a timely manner.
Cost Organization: Organizes your costs across meaningful business semantics, such as teams, projects, and applications.
Budget Management: Allows you to create budgets, receive overrun alerts, and track your budgets.
Cost Optimization: Offers appropriate billing modes and identifies idle resources to help lower your costs.

**Table 1** Description
Scenario	Work Goal	Description	Reference
Cost Insights	Analyzing costs	Analyze your costs with preconfigured or custom reports, learn how your costs are broken down, review cost trends, and forecast your costs.	Cost Analysis
	Detecting cost anomalies	Identify any unexpected cost spikes and receive alerts.	Cost Anomaly Detection
	Obtaining cost details	Export original costs, amortized costs, and usage details to OBS (in OBT).	Cost Details Export
	Analyzing costs for longer term and at finer granularity	Enable hourly cost analysis and monthly multi-year cost analysis.	Preferences
	Analyzing CCE cluster costs	Learn about the cost breakdowns and trends of CCE clusters by namespace or workload.	Cost Analysis
	Splitting shared costs of certain services	Enable cost splitting. Only some of CDN, WSA, and Live traffic costs can be split by domain name.	Viewing Split CDN Costs
	Analyzing effective cost in a given billing cycle	Amortize costs of prepaid resources, such as those in yearly/monthly subscriptions and resource packages, on a daily basis to display the effective costs over the selected time range.	What Are Amortized Costs?
Cost Organization	Allocating costs by cost identifier	Use cost tags or enterprise projects to identify resources and allocate costs.	Confirming Your Cost Allocation Method
	Creating cost mapping rules	Use cost categories to create custom rules to map costs to Huawei Cloud cost organization methods (linked accounts, enterprise projects, cost tags, and cost categories), helping you manage costs from your own service perspective.	Viewing Costs By Cost Category
	Splitting shared costs	Proportionally allocate shared costs (such as shared resources, platform services, and untagged costs) across an organization.	Mapping Cost Allocation Methods to Cost Category Rules
	Analyzing costs by allocation method	Understand your costs and usage by allocation method, for example, by linked account, enterprise project, cost tag, or cost category.	Cost Analysis
Budget Management	Creating and tracking budgets	Quickly create budgets for service types or business units, zero spend budgets, or create custom budgets with parameters specific to your use case. You can configure alerts to warn you if your budget has been exceeded or is forecasted to be exceeded.	Budgets
	Monitoring budget performance	Create and receive daily, weekly, and monthly reports to monitor the performance of your budgets.	Budget Reports
	Tracking utilization and coverage	Set a utilization or coverage target for savings plans and reserved instances. You can configure alerts to warn you if the actual utilization or coverage is below the target.	Budgets
Cost Optimization	Identifying cost optimization opportunities	Identify the opportunities for optimizing resources and changing billing modes to save costs.	Cost Optimization
	Getting savings plans purchase recommendations	Get recommendations for purchasing savings plans based on your historical pay-per-use usage.	Following Cost Optimization Recommendations
	Analyzing reserved instance utilization	Analyze how reserved instances are applied to your usage to help you determine whether they are fully utilized.	Analyzing RIs
	Analyzing reserved instance coverage	Check how much of your pay-per-use usage is covered by reserved instances to determine whether they are enough.	Analyzing RIs
	Viewing savings plans summary	Review savings plans-saved costs and optimization opportunities, and view your inventory of all savings plans.	What Are Savings Plans?
	Analyzing savings plans utilization	Analyze how savings plans are applied to your usage to help you determine whether they are fully utilized.	Viewing the Usage of Savings Plans
	Analyzing savings plans coverage	Check how much of your pay-per-use usage is covered by savings plans to determine whether they are enough.	Viewing the Usage of Savings Plans