Top 5 Questions About Maestro: Automation and Multi-Partners Finance
In our previous post , we started the topic of top questions related to Maestro , which included those about Maestro as a SIAM platform and Maestro resource management approaches. In this article, we are facing another popular questions - focusing on finance and automation. 1. How would you organize the multi partner billing process? Using a SIAM framework which supports multi-layered organizational structure allows organizing billing process for multiple cost objects, that can be assigned to different partners. This can be organized wither via using multi-tenant approach, where cloud accounts are matched to different tenants, thus the whole billing for a specific tenant goes to a specific partner. Alternatively, in case a single account is used by several partners, infrastructure can be split within a tenant, with tags, or based on the resource ownership concept. 2. What are the relevant price items which would build up the structure of your cost estimation? For public cloud providers...