Splitting bills by tag in Cloud Data Transfer (CDT) enables fine-grained cost tracking and management. This capability improves budget control, increases billing transparency, simplifies financial reporting and auditing, and promotes cost optimization.
Create and add tags to cloud resources
Console
To add tags:
Go to the Resource Management console - Tag page and click Create Tag.
In the Create Tag dialog box, set the tag key and tag value. You can also click Upload .xlsx File to upload an Excel file that contains the tags. Click Create.
If you specify an existing tag key, only a new tag value is added to that key.
Tag Key: Required. Select an existing tag key or enter a new one. You can perform a fuzzy search by prefix. You can specify up to 10 tag keys at a time. A tag key can be up to 128 characters in length and cannot start with
aliyunoracs:or containhttp://orhttps://.Tag Value: Optional. A tag value can be up to 128 characters in length. It cannot start with
aliyunoracs:or containhttp://orhttps://.
To add tags to resources:
When you create a resource, add a tag by selecting it from the list of tag keys and values in the service console.
For existing resources, go to the Resource Management console - Tag page. In the tag list, find the target tag and click Add To Resources in the Actions column.
To add the tag to resources across different services and regions, set Method to Specify Resources to Select from Resource List and select the resources from the list. You can filter resources by multiple conditions.
To add the tag to resources of a specific service and in a specific region, set Method to Specify Resources to Enter Resource IDs. Then, select the target service and region, and enter the resource IDs. Separate multiple IDs with commas (,).
To remove a tag from resources, find the tag and click View Resources in the Actions column. On the Resources tab, remove the tag from the resources.
API
Call the TagResources operation to create and attach tags to cloud resources.
Call the UntagResources operation to detach tags from cloud resources.
Split bills by tag
Enable cost allocation tags, and enable the specific tags that you want to use for bill splitting. Then, view split bills based on these tags on pages such as Cost Analysis and Bill Details in the Expenses and Costs console.
If you do not enable any tags on the Cost allocation tags page, no tags are displayed on the pages in Expenses and Costs. The Cost allocation tags page lists all tags that you have created. If a tag is not needed for cost allocation, leave it disabled.
Go to the Cost allocation tags page to enable cost allocation tags:
The first time you use this feature, click Next, select the target tags, and follow the prompts to Enable them.
Later, you can click Enable or Disable in the Actions column for a tag to set whether it is used for bill splitting.
View split bills:
On the Split Bill page
The first time you use the split bill feature, go to the Split Bill page in Expenses and Costs and click Activate Now. This feature is free of charge. You can view the split bill data starting the day after you enable the feature.
Go to the Split Bill page in Expenses and Costs and view your resource costs.
Click the
button to export the split bill records. On the Export Record page, download the exported file.On the Cost Analysis page
The first time you use the cost analysis feature, go to the Cost Analysis page in Expenses and Costs and click Activate for Free. You can use the feature 48 hours after you enable it, provided that consumption data exists.
Go to the Cost Analysis page in Expenses and Costs. Set Category under Analysis Dimension to Instance Tag and view the costs of resources associated with specific tags.
On the Cost Centers page
Go to the Cost Centers page in Expenses and Costs. Create cost centers as needed and allocate resources to them by tag.
