About Billing Infrastructure

CSPs provide resource usage and cost reports to customers at set intervals. Parallel Works refers to this as the true cost data. Each CSP's cost export feature ultilizes unique cloud infrastructure and has a unique data format. The PW platform can provision the necessary infrastructure to enable CSP billing exports on each cloud, please see Configuring Billing Infrastructure for more details.

Alternatively, organizations may manually enable CSP billing data exports by following steps for each CSP they will use with the platform.

• For AWS, please see the AWS guide on creating cost and usage reports.
• For Azure, please see the Azure guide on creating and managing exported billing data.
• For Google, please see the Google guide on setting up cloud billing data exports.

Once data exports are configured, the PW platform pulls, formats, and stores true cost data from each CSP. Platform users and organization administrators can see true cost data on the cost dashboard (documention link coming soon), which is a convenient one-stop page for users to track their usage across all CSPs without having to refer to each CSP's cost management console.

Below, you can find specific details about the implementation of the billing infrastructure for each CSP.

AWS Billing Infrastructure

Deploying billing infrastructure provisions the following on AWS:

• Cost Usage Report: exports AWS cost data periodically
• S3 Bucket: stores exported AWS cost data

The schematic below shows how the PW platform communicates with AWS Cloud after the billing infrastructure is created.

Azure Billing Infrastructure

Deploying billing infrastructure provisions the following on Azure:

• Cost Export: exports Azure cost data daily
• Billing Resource Group: groups the storage account and container
• Storage Account: an account to contain the blob storage container
• Blob Container: stores exported Azure cost data
• Cost Management Export Provider: registers the necessary provider for cost export (not included in the diagram)

The schematic below shows how the PW platform communicates with Azure Cloud after the billing infrastructure is created.

Google Billing Infrastructure

Deploying billing infrastructure provisions the following on Google:

• BigQuery Dataset: stores exported Google cost data
• BigQuery Data Transfer API: enables the necessary API to export data to BigQuery (not included in the diagram)

The schematic below shows how the PW platform communicates with Google Cloud after the billing infrastructure is created.