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 of Cost | Description |
Blended | - Averages the usage rate of similar resources across all accounts
- Lowers the bill for individual payees by sharing RIs across accounts and compressing individual payees
- Not a good method you can use to bill customers
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Unblended | - Show rates of actual usage for resources across the entire consolidated bill
- Used to calculate support charges and taxes
- Closest to billing directly provided by AWS
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List | - Closest method to correct billing
- Translates usage charges into separate costs for each payee as if they were standalone accounts
- Allows partner to provide invoices that correctly represent the payee's cost as if they were not part of the consolidated billing family
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To ensure that the payee only sees list cost in their email notifications and alerts, review the
Enable Payee List Cost topic.
