Cost Analysis enables you to monitor your cloud service resource consumption and forecast future spending using multi-dimensional analysis and visualizations.
Enable Cost Analysis
Before using Cost Analysis for the first time, you must enable it. On the Cost Analysis page, click Activate For Free. You can use the feature normally after 48 hours, provided there is consumption data.
For organizations with multiple accounts, both the Management Account (MA) and member accounts must enable the cost analysis feature separately.
View cost trends
On the Cost Trends page, you can specify conditions to view cost analysis data. You can also review historical analysis records by report and view cost data for the budgeted time by budget.
Cost analysis data is summarized from finalized bills. The current month's consumption cost data is updated 48 hours after the detailed bill is issued. The final data for the current month can be viewed after 12:00 on the 4th of the following month.
The current month's data does not include unsettled (unbilled, accumulating) pay-as-you-go data.
1: Conditions
In the Conditions list, you can set filters to view cost trends across various dimensions.
For multi-account enterprise MAs, analysis results include only member accounts that have enabled cost analysis. To view analysis results for all member accounts, enable the feature for each one separately.
Expense Forecast: If Time Granularity includes future dates, click Enable Forecast in the pop-up window to activate the expense forecast feature. Forecast expenses are estimated based on historical pay-as-you-go expenses and may differ from actual expenses during the forecast period. Forecast data is for reference only.
2: Analyze by Report
Click Save to save the analysis results as a report for future reference and sharing. Click Reports to view all saved cost analysis reports and their filter conditions.
After saving cost data under filter conditions as a report, select the saved report in Analyze By Report to view historical analysis records.
3: Analyze by Budget
Select the budget you have created to view cost data for the budgeted time granularity.
Click Estimate-to-Actual Analysis to view details of actual consumption compared to the set budget.
Click Set Budget tocreate or manage budgets. For detailed operations, see Budget management.
4: Visualization Charts
Visualize your data using stacked column, line, or bar charts. Only the top 10 items are displayed within each time granularity graph, with the remaining amount summarized as "Other."
5: Cost Details
The expense analysis consumption detail table displays cost details in a tabular form under the filter conditions, with Total Cost representing the sum of all cost consumption for the current month. Click the 
button in the cost detail area to export data.