Cost Center
The Cost Center page displays the current month's costs, spending breakdown, and cost analysis for the databases in your Alibaba Cloud account.
View cost information
Log on to Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB.
On the Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB home page, click the Cost Center tab.
The Cost Center page displays information for This Month's Cost, Spending Breakdown, and Cost Analysis.
On the Cost Center page, you can also perform the following actions:
Click Top-up next to This Month's Cost to add funds to your account.
Click Go to Cost Analysis to the right of the Spending Breakdown or Cost Analysis section to view detailed billing information for your account.
Drill-down cost analysis (PolarDB only)
Only PolarDB instances support cost drill-down analysis.
Log on to Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB.
On the Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB homepage, click the Cost Center tab.
In the upper-right corner, click Use New Version.
NoteIf Use Previous Version is displayed in the upper-right corner, you are already using the new version. Skip this step and go to step 4.
If neither Use New Version nor Use Previous Version is displayed in the upper-right corner, it means you do not have any PolarDB instances in your Alibaba Cloud account and cannot perform a drill-down analysis.
In the Cost Analysis section, click the donut chart to start a drill-down analysis. The cost breakdown view and the list below it refresh automatically.
The drill-down analysis shows cost breakdowns for compute, storage, backup, and audit. It also supports association analysis of costs between database instances and tool products. You can manually add drill-down dimensions by clicking to select them. The analysis lets you drill down through top costs by level, such as instance, backup, and level-2 backup.