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Metering

meshStack imports metering data from AWS Cost Explorer. It is recommended to have a daily report update interval in order to keep the costs of calling the API low. This can be configured via the awsStateCollectionInterval property.

The amortized cost is used when generating the tenant usage reports.

Configuration​

Connection information and metering behavior can be configured via the Platform Connection Configuration. Besides the option of considering or excluding taxes charged on the AWS bill, the main behavior that can be steered here is the handling of Reserved Instances and Savings Plans.

Configuring Seller Information​

If you would like to see the AWS costs attributed to a seller in the chargeback statments, a product needs to be created manually in the meshcloud Product Catalog. This product should have a resourceType of sellerInfo and should be scoped to a platformType of Aws . An example is shown below.

{
    "resourceType": "sellerInfo",
    "displayName": "AWS Seller Info",
    "scope": {
        "platformType": "Aws",
        "location": null,
        "platformInstance": null,
        "localProjectId": null
    },
    "usageTypes": [],
    "description": "",
    "sellerId": "AWS",
    "sellerProductGroup": null,
    "@metadata": {
        "@collection": "Products",
        "Raven-Java-Type": "io.meshcloud.kraken.core.metering.Product"
    }
}