Tag-based cost allocation is a feature that enables custom management of users' cloud resource bills from the perspective of statistical analysis by leveraging the tag tool and cost allocation capabilities. Users can use tags to reallocate and analyze the costs or expenses of cloud resources in the bill according to their management or analysis needs by cost allocation dimensions such as the department using the resource or the application project for the resource.
Note:
EdgeOne tag-based cost allocation is an allowlist feature. You need to contact us for allowlist configuration before you can implement tag-based cost allocation.
The EdgeOne tag-based cost allocation feature is only available to Enterprise edition users. Once activated, it will take effect from the 1st of the following month and cannot be applied to historical bills.
2. Click Tag List in the left sidebar to go to the tag list page and select Custom Tag.
3. Click Create Tag. In the Create Tag dialog box, create a tag, or select an existing tag key and add a tag value to it. Click Add Tag Key to create multiple tags at a time.
Tag key (required): Enter a new tag key to create a tag, or select an existing tag key and add a tag value to it.
Tag value (required): Enter a new tag value.
4. Click OK to start creation. All successfully added tags will be displayed.
2. On the Cost Allocation Tags page, select the tag key to be operated and click Set as Cost Allocation Tag.
3. In the pop-up message box, click OK. If a message shown below appears in the upper right corner of the console or cost allocation tags are identified in the list, it indicates that the setting is complete.
Binding Tags to a Site
The finest resource granularity of EdgeOne is the site, so tags can only be bound to the site. You can bind tags when adding a new site or after the site is added. Below is a brief description:
2. On the site addition page, click Add under Tag, and select the corresponding tag key and tag value, such as Operation Product: Tencent Cloud EdgeOne.
3. Complete the site access according to the site addition steps. If you can query the bound tag information on the site list page, it indicates that the tag binding is successful.
1. Log in and go to EdgeOne console > Service Dashboard, under the Website security acceleration TAB, select the site to be bound with tags, and click More > Edit Tag.
2. In the pop-up window, add the corresponding tag key and tag value, and click OK to complete the tag binding.
3. If you can query the bound tag information on the site list page, it indicates that the tag binding is successful.
Note:
EdgeOne Tag Accounting can only split costs at the site level and summarize expenses by tag. If you need to split settlement for domain names under the same site, for example, the existing example.com site, where 1.example.com and 2.example.com belong to the acceleration department, and 3.example.com and 4.example.com belong to the security group, cost allocation by tag at the domain level is required. Refer to the following solution.
Option 1: Implement by accessing an EdgeOne site with the same name. For example:
1. Create site example.com, bind the "Acceleration Department" tag, and add domains 1.example.com and 2.example.com under this site. Subsequently, ALL subdomains of the acceleration department will be managed under this site.
2. Create another site example.com with the same name, bind the "Security Group" tag, and add domains 3.example.com and 4.example.com under this site. Subsequently, ALL subdomains of the security group will be managed under this site.
Achievable to split bills to different operation departments based on tags.
To summarize, if a site has more (N) department tags, it is required to first divide it into N sites during site addition, then bind tags separately, and proceed with subdomain addition.
Option 2: Implement via EdgeOne content identifier associated with designated domain name method:
View detailed addition instructions for content identifier. Brief explanation here:
1. Create a content identifier to identify domain names responsible for the acceleration department and security group, and associate tags with the content identifier.
2. In the rule engine, map and associate the domain names and content identifiers by department. For the association method, please refer to configure content identifier. This method implements cost allocation for content identifiers and domain names simultaneously. Example configuration is shown in the figure below:
Tag Bill Query
After binding the tags to the EdgeOne site and setting them as cost allocation tags, you can view the tag fee summary in the Billing Center in the following ways:
3. If you need to download a bill for detailed analysis, go to Billing Center > Bills > View bills > Bill Download Center, and select the billing month to download the bill. Each fee is also marked with the cost allocation tag in the downloaded file.
