Configure What Costs Are Visible to a User
When you are creating a new user, you can identify the types of costs that will be visible to that user. The application identifies three types of cost:
- unblended costs
- blended costs
- list costs
Review the table for more information to help you determine what type of costs you want your user to have access to.
|
Type |
Cost Calculations |
Outcomes |
Benefit(s) |
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Blended |
Averages on-demand and reserved pricing using a common usage rate for shared resources in a consolidated billing family. Does not factor in support costs.
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RI purchaser may see rates higher than the RI rate while On Demand users may see rates lower than the On Demand rates. |
Good way to determine the average costs across a consolidated bill |
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Unblended |
Account that purchased the RI is responsible for all RI costs. Accounts that consume the RI(s) but did not purchase them will have lower-than-actual costs. When an account other than the purchasing account uses the RI, those RI hours show up as a zero cost in that account. |
Payees who shared RIs and benefited from the lower pricing tiers of other payees in the consolidated billing family will have a lower bill. |
Helps individual payees within the consolidated billing family |
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List |
Reverses unintended payee discounts on EC2 RIs, RDS RIs, and tiered pricing. |
Mimics AWS cost for each payee as if they were a standalone account—plus or minus additional custom discounts or charges issued by the the owner of the consolidated billing family. |
Helps MSPs or resellers |
