Consolidated Billing for and Costs Control in Hybrid Cloud Infrastructures


Maestro supports AWS Consolidated Billing, in which you get a single bill for all your accounts. The billing data is obtained from AWS, Azure and Google clouds directly in the form of .csv files. The billing data is updated on the hourly basis, therefore, you can see the current cost of your infrastructure at any time.

Maestro receives bills from providers and sends them to the customers "as is", without adding or removing anything. However, there is an option of making adjustments to the bills, for example, extending credits to particular accounts for certain amounts.

The billing engine is based on the same concepts and mechanisms as were applied in EPAM Orchestrator. Virtual resources are billed according to the timelines - periods of time during which the resource is in a certain state. Timeline beginnings and endings are marked with audit events which in Maestro are supplied by CADF (Cloud Auditing Data Federation). A virtual machine start generates an audit event as well as its stop generates another. The period between these events is a timeline which is billed in the same way for its entire duration. The same principle is applied to all other virtual resources, such as checkpoints or volumes.

What is especially great in Maestro billing solution is that it allows not only to monitor and collect the costs, but also to control them with the Quotas mechanism. 

Monthly resource utilization (cost) quotas allow to set the amount of money that can be spent on Cloud each month, and the actions that should be automatically taken when the quota is depleted. Maestro allows to check and update quota rules in real time, and one can always receive information on the current quota utilization rate. Besides this, Maestro can perform regular checks of quota utilization, and notify a responsible person on the quota depletion level, so that respective infrastructure optimization actions can be taken timely.
 


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