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Rule Lab is the section of the app where you can define cost-allocation-rules.md.
Cloudthread Rule Lab
This is the top pane of the page that includes:
- Rule name
- This is editable
- Delete, Save and Save As buttons
- #cost-type-selector
- #month-picker
Allows for choosing the cost type and adding/removing cost components such as Taxes, Credits, Refunds, Discounts, Fees as well as Amortization.
Needed for showing the total cost per rule.
This pane summarizes all Custom Tags you have created in Rule Lab.
The button saves the costs distributed by tags (by cost allocation rules) in CSV format.
This is the interface for creating and editing the cost-allocation-rules.md.
The interface has 2 major steps:
- Costs source dropdown
- Split Dimension dropdown
Currently 2 options are available:
- AWS Costs
- Custom Data from custom-data-api.md
The data dimensions for the split, based on the #costs-source-dropdown
- For AWS:
- Accounts
- Payer Accounts
- Regions
- Tags
- Services
- Invoice IDs
- Charge Categories
- Purchase Options
- RI / SP ARNs
{% hint style="success" %} You can see the instructions on how to create the rule in setting-up-cost-allocation-rules.md guide. {% endhint %}





