AWS Billing Conductor

AWS Billing Conductor Cheat Sheet

• Facilitates showback and chargeback workflows for AWS Solution Providers and Enterprise customers.
• Enables customization of an alternative monthly billing data version.
• Models your billing relationship with customers or business units.
• Maintains your existing AWS billing method.

• Allows configuration, generation, and display of rates to specific customers over a billing period.
• Supports analysis of rate differences between your groupings and actual AWS rates.

Key Features

• Group Accounts: You can group your accounts into a set of mutually exclusive set of accounts (billing groups). These groups are used to provide an aggregated view across a set of accounts. In addition, the cost and usage of each billing group are computed like it is a stand-alone customer. This lets you model the sharing of reserved instance and Savings Plans benefits, volume tiering discounts, and AWS Free Tier for each billing group.
• Custom Pricing Plans: You can apply custom pricing plans: global, service, billing entity, and SKU-specific markups or discounts relative to On-Demand rates. You can also turn off Free Tier with the global or service-scoped pricing rule tiering option.
• Custom Line Items: You can create and apply one-time or recurring charges or credits to your billing groups. These custom line items can be created as flat or percentage-based.
• Pro Forma Cost Analysis: Analyze pro forma costs based on your pricing configuration for each billing group in the AWS Billing console bills page.
• Accounts within your billing groups have the ability to visualize, forecast, and generate personalized reports of their projected costs using AWS Cost Explorer.
• Cost and Usage Report per Billing Group: You can generate a Cost & Usage Report (CUR) for each of your billing groups, available at the payer account and the primary account of a billing group. Non-primary accounts within a billing group can only generate a CUR for their own account.
• Margin Analysis: You can analyze month-to-date and historical differences between the rates that you apply to your billing groups relative to your actual AWS rates.

Benefits

• AWS Billing Conductor supports managing your billing and reporting processes by allowing you to customize the billing rates, allocate credits and charges, and distribute overhead expenses as per your requirements.

• It offers you a system to set up, produce, and present specific rates to selected customers during a specified billing cycle.
• It doesn’t change the way that you’re billed by Amazon Web Services each month.