Alibaba Cloud
Every Alibaba Cloud dollar has an owner. Tags optional.
Tagging tracks less than half of cloud spend. Cloud Intelligence™ reads your Alibaba Cloud FOCUS bill, then reads runtime traffic to put shared ACK clusters, ApsaraDB, OSS and bandwidth on the team, customer or feature that used them.
Read-only RAM user · FOCUS bill export · Refreshed every 6 hours
Alibaba Cloud · October
you can't tag your way to 100%
Tags stop at the shared stuff. We don't.
Shared ACK clusters, ApsaraDB, NAT gateways and internet bandwidth have no clean tagging surface. Cloud Intelligence™ reads runtime traffic and allocates every dollar by what actually happened. Your existing tags still count, as one more signal.
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The Alibaba Cloud bill, made readable
FOCUS cost of record
Billed cost exactly as invoiced, by account, product and region.
Amortized cost
Subscription fees spread across their service period.
Split items and cost centers
OSS buckets, CDN domains and shared bandwidth, line by line.
Estimated vs final
Current month marked estimated until the final bill lands.
Budgets and alerts
Guardrails on Alibaba Cloud spend, next to every other cloud.
Allocations and virtual tags
One clean owner per dollar, with or without tags.
live the same day
Connect Alibaba Cloud in three steps
Subscribe your bills.
Push the FOCUS bill export to an OSS bucket, then add a read-only RAM user.
Add the sensor.
One Helm install on ACK, or a script on ECS. About 15 minutes.
Every dollar gets an owner.
Shared and untagged spend allocated by real usage.
Read-only access. Every month already in the bucket is imported.
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questions
How does Cloud Intelligence™ connect to Alibaba Cloud?
Alibaba Cloud pushes your bills to an OSS bucket through bill subscriptions. You create a RAM user with read-only OSS access and enter its AccessKey, the bucket and the FOCUS directory in Cloud Intelligence™. Split Details, Cost Details and Bill Details exports are optional but recommended.
Which Alibaba Cloud accounts are supported?
International-site accounts (alibabacloud.com) on the new billing version, including main accounts and Finance Cloud master accounts.
How fresh is the data?
We refresh Alibaba Cloud billing data every 6 hours. A day's bill is typically available within 30 hours. Current-month data is Alibaba Cloud's estimate until the month-final file replaces it.
Can I allocate Alibaba Cloud costs without tags?
Yes. The runtime sensor reads traffic to assign shared ACK clusters, databases and network to the team, customer or feature that used them. Your tags are still ingested, and virtual tags clean up inconsistent keys.
Do you show amortized cost for subscriptions?
Yes. With the Cost Details export, subscription fees are spread across the days of their service period and reported as Amortized cost.
Is Model Studio spend included?
Yes. Every product on your Alibaba Cloud bill, including Model Studio, shows up in your reports next to your other AI providers.
Connect Alibaba Cloud. Find the owner of every dollar.
Free to start. Read-only. Live the same day.