Cost Report

Cost Report

Cost Report

  • You can search cost reports using various filters and grouping types based on your cloud accounts.

  • "Cost Report" provides the most up-to-date costs, but "Cost Dashboard" shows costs that is 2 hours out of date.

  • If you moves cloud accounts to a certain company or service, it will takes 1 day to renew.image-20240722-053230.png

1. Move to Cost Report

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  • Click ‘Cost Analysis’ > 'Report' on the menu to go to Cost Report.

2. About Search Conditions

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Tips on Search conditions

  • CSP, company, service, parent account, and account can be selected based on the account selected in “Select Account” at the top right of the screen. If the conditions you want are not met, please check “Select Account”.

  • CSP, company, service, parent account, and account are hierarchical structures. Only child conditions included in the parent selection condition can be selected.

Search Period

  • You can set periods for search.

CSP

  • You can select only one CSP (AWS / GCP / Azure / kakaocloud)

Search Type

  • Total Cost : It provides total costs (sum) in search period.

  • Monthly Cost : It provides costs added each month in search period.

Usage Type Classification

  • Usage Type : It provides ‘Usage Types' on search results.

Tags

  • You can select Standard Tags that each CSP provides. It will be shown as blank if there is no values at a certain tag.

  • ‘Standard Tags’ are listed on LG CNS billing center.

  • Tags may be different for each Payer Accounts, and can be registered freely for each customers. So tags which is not 'Standard Tags' cannot be provided.

  • If you need to analyze the costs deeply, you can use Tableau. Please contact Tableau manager to get information.

  • For more information about 'Standard Tags', visit Tag Cost Inquiry.

Company / Service / Account

  • Company

    • You can select companies to search costs.

    • Selectable companies depend on checked accounts that is on ‘Select Account’.

    • You can select ‘Services’ if you select only one company.

    • You cannot select ‘Services’ if you select two or more companies.

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  • Service

    • You can select services belongs to a certain company.

    • Service consists of ‘[Service Code]' and 'Service Name’.

    • You can select ‘Parent Accounts’ or ‘Accounts’ if you select only one service.

    • you cannot select ‘Parent Accounts' or 'Accounts’ if you select two or more services.

  • Parent Account

    • You can select parent accounts if you select ‘GCP’ or ‘Azure’ as CSP.

    • Parent account consists of ‘Parent Account Name’ and '(Parent Account ID)'.

    • You can select ‘Accounts’ if you select only one parent accounts.

    • You cannot select ‘Accounts’ if you select two or more parent accounts.

  • Account

    • You can select accounts belongs to a certain parent account or service.

    • Account consists of ‘Account Name' and '(Account ID)’.

Cost Div

  • You can select Cost Div filter which is provided by each CSP.

3. Search Results

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Tips on Search Results

  • Consumer Price: This is the List Price provided by CSP.

  • Discounted price: This is the discounted amount through the contract with LG CNS.

  • Discount rate: The ratio of the discounted amount to the consumer price.

  • Usage: This is usage based on service type and is not monetary data.

※ For inquiries about discount prices, please contact the LG CNS Cloud Business Team or Billing Center.

Summary of search results: Displays summarized information about the entire search results. 

  • Total consumer price: The sum of all consumer prices.

  • Total discount price: The sum of all discount prices.

Search result details: Displays the entire search results in a table.

  • Columns: You can select the columns to display in the table.

  • Filters: You can select which rows to display in the table.

  • Export: You can download the table results to Excel.

    • Export excel: Download table data to Excel. 

      • When downloading more than 100,000 pieces of data, a download link will be sent to the email address provided by the user.

    • RawData: Original data (RawData) download is activated only when AWS is selected and searched.

  • Quick Search: You can quickly search for rows by entering conditions.

Apply for settlement group authority

If you do not see the settlement group you need to search for, search by the name of the settlement group in "User Account > User Role Application > Role Application Page" and apply for the service. You can search after administrator approval.
((Link) Apply for company/service/cloud account permission (see guide)