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Obtain price lists from public cloud providers such as Amazon AWS and Azure ARM and use them in flexible reseller pricing models with CSP discounts and mark ups  |
Abiquo 4.6 can obtain pricing details from public cloud providers. The platform obtains and synchronizes the prices of hardware profiles for Linux instances with no pre-installed software.
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The pricing credentials must have privileges to access the pricing data in the provider via API.
For example, in Amazon the credentials may be the same ones that access virtual resources but in any case, the IAM user will require AWSPriceListServiceFullAccess.
For Azure, the pricing credentials for standard accounts will differ from the credentials to manage virtual resources. They will have the following formats, depending on the account type:
Standard account: subscription-id#app-id#tenant-id#offer-durable-id
CSP:
user#clientuser#client-id#csp-authenticator-uri
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If you have a tenant hierarchy, including scopes with reseller or key node enterprises, the platform finds valid credentials with the priority:
Own enterprise pricing credentials
Key Node enterprise pricing credentials
Reseller enterprise pricing credentials
Own enterprise public cloud credentials
Discounts and price factors for resellers and key nodes
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The platform will search for discount and price factor properties with the priority:
Key node enterprise properties.
Reseller enterprise properties.
Default values that won't modify the original price (0 for discount and 1 for price factor)
Note that CSP Accounts already return the price with the discount applied, so the plugin does not apply it again.
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When you enter the pricing credentials, the platform will retrieve hardware profile prices from the provider. You can display hardware profile prices in the pricing model. By default the platform will refresh hardware profile prices every 24 hours and the administrator may configure this interval for the platform. See Abiquo configuration properties#pricing.
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Related links:
Pricing view with full details of how to configure pricing