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The platform populates the billing dashboard widgets using scripts that obtain the billing information from the cloud providers. So first you will need to configure programmatic access to billing in the cloud providers. Then you will need to install the billing packages and configure and the scripts so they can obtain the billing data and add it to Abiquo. 

Configure programmatic billing in cloud providers

Amazon

See the AWS documentation about how to configure programmatic billing for AWS EC2 - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-programmatic-access-to-aws-billing-data/

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Reference for Azure billing: https://docs.microsoft.com/es-es/azure/billing/billing-usage-rate-card-partner-solution-cloudyn 

Install and configure billing packages

You will need a server with MariaDB running with access to the Abiquo API, Abiquo database, and public cloud providers. 

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