Cost Analysis

In Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Cost Analysis is an interactive and visual analytics tool under Cost Management that helps aggregate billing data and present graphical spending trends over time. It supports multiple filters, including Start date and End date in UTC format, Granularity (Daily/Monthly), Show (Cost/Usage), Show Forecast, and Grouping dimensions (Service, Service and Product Description, Compartment, Region, AD, or Tenancy).

Navigation

Navigation menu > Billing & Cost Management > Cost Management > Cost Analysis

• Start date (UTC)

• End date (UTC)

• Granularity

• Show

• Show Forecast

• Grouping dimensions

• Reset

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Usage Reports

In Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Cost and Usage Reports are raw, immutable, compressed, and downloadable CSV files in .csv.gz format. They are generated daily by OCI and stored in an Oracle-managed Object Storage bucket.

Navigation

Navigation menu > Billing & Cost Management > Cost Management > Cost and Usage Reports

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You can view specific report by clicking on FOCUS Reports

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FREE/PAID Services & Resources

Governance & IAM:

• Compartments - Free

• Identity Domains & Users/Groups - Free/Default tiers (Except premium tiers)

• IAM Policies - Free

• Tags - Free

Core Networking (VCN):

• VCNs & Subnets - Free

• Route Tables & Security Lists - Free

• NSGs - Free

• Internet Gateway - Free (Outbount internet egress charges applies)

• NAT Gateway - Free

• Service Gateway - Free

• DRG - Free

• Local and Remote Peering (LPG/RPC) - Free (cross-region inter-tenancy/intra-tenancy traffic follows standard data transfer rates)

Compute:

• VM Instances (AMD/Intel/ARM) - Paid (stopped instances incur zero compute cost only attached boot volumes are charged)

• OS Licensing (Windows/Red Hat) - Paid (Oracle Linux and Ubuntu Linux are free)

Storage:

• Boot and Block Volumes - Paid

• Block Volume Backups and Clones - Paid

• Object Storage - Paid (Always free allowance: 20GB)

• File Storage (FFS/NFS) - Paid

Security & Secrets:

• OCI Vault (Software Keys & Secrets) - Free (Always free limit apply)

• OCI Vault (HSM-Protected Key) - Paid

• OCI Bastion Service - Free (SSH/Port-forwarding gateway into private subnets at no charge)

Traffic & Data transfer:

• Inbound Traffic - Free

• Intra-Region/Intra-VCN Traffic - Free (same region)

• Internet Outbound - 10TB/Month Free

• Inter-Region (cross-region) Egress - Paid

Notes: Clean Orphaned Volumes and Unattached Public IPs to avoid unwanted charges.