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Changes to enterprise properties for AWS billing

Abiquo 6.0.0

  • Before you upgrade, add the amazon_bucket_region as an enterprise property. The value is the code for the AWS region where your billing bucket is located (for example, us-east-1)

Abiquo 6.1.0

  • The price_factor enterprise property is deprecated and replaced with the Abiquo price factor for Amazon. See Manage price factors

Configure properties

To configure Abiquo properties for AWS billing

  1. By default, the platform will retrieve billing data for the last two months. To change this value, on the Abiquo Server, edit the abiquo.properties file and add the following property with the number of months to retrieve:

    Code Block
    abiquo.enterprise.property.billing.monthoffset=2


  2. By default, the platform will process all items in the CSV file, so the partner discount (SppDiscount) value can be visible on customer dashboards. To discard items from the CSV file, on the Remote Services server, edit the abiquo.properties file and add the following property with any items to discard. 

    Code Block
    abiquo.ec2billing.lineItemType.ignore=SppDiscount

Configure AWS

To configure AWS to supply billing data, do the following steps.

  1. Create an S3 bucket, for example, "costandusagebillingreport"

    1. Within the bucket, create a folder where AWS will store your reports. Give it the name of your report, for example "costandusagebillingreport"

    2. Note the billing bucket name, for example, "costandusagebillingreport"

  2. Create a new user, such as "programmaticbilling" to create the reports

    1. Assign the AmazonS3ReadOnlyAccess policy

    2. Activate the IAM user's access to billing information. See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/control-access-billing.html

  3. Optionally configure legacy billing reports

    1. Go to Billing → Billing preferences

    2. Open the Detailed Billing Reports [Legacy] section

    3. Select the option to Turn on the legacy Detailed Billing Reports feature to receive ongoing reports of your AWS charges

    4. Click Configure and enter your S3 bucket details

    5. Select all of the available reports including

      1. Monthly report

      2. Detailed billing report

      3. Cost allocation report

      4. Detailed billing report with resources and tags

    6. Click Save preferences

  4. Configure Cost & Usage Reports

    1. Go to Cost & Usage Reports

    2. Enter the Report  name, which you will need to enter in Abiquo later, then click Next

    3. Click Configure and select the S3 bucket. Click Next, then select  I have confirmed that this policy is correct.

    4. By default, Amazon will put the reports in a folder with the name format "/report-name/date-range/". Note this as the value for the report prefix in Abiquo. Click Next

    5. Review your configuration and check that the following parameters are set: 

      1. bucket name

      2. path (folder/subfolder)

      3. time detail: Hourly

      4. GZIP or ZIP format

  5. The AWS account with credentials to use in Abiquo should have the permissions in the AWS permissions table below.

AWS permissions table

Type

Privileges

Resources

Price list

Full access

All resources

S3

Full: list, read

Multiple

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To configure billing dashboards in Abiquo for resellers, do these steps.

  1. The Abiquo users should have the privileges to Display hybrid dashboard tab, View bills, and optionally to Display VM cost view widget (hybrid tab)

  2. In Abiquo, edit the reseller enterprise and create the enterprise properties in the AWS enterprise properties for resellers table below

AWS enterprise properties for resellers table

Property

Description

Previous name

Migration for v5.2.0

Notes

amazon_bucket

Name of the S3 bucket where Amazon stores billing data.
(warning) Change value for v5.2.0. This was previously reseller ID in the yaml configuration file.billing_bucket

(warning) Enter the new value

amazon_bucket_region

Code for the AWS region where the bucket configured is located (for example us-east-1).

(tick)

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amazon_report_name

amazon_bucket/amazon_bucket_prefix/amazon_report_name/file.csv

report_name

(tick)

amazon_bucket_prefix

amazon_bucket/ amazon_bucket_prefix /amazon_report_name/file.csv

report_prefix

(tick)

amazon_billing_compress_format

Compression format of the billing report file: ZIP or GZIP

(tick)

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amazon_price_factor

Default provider markup for customer enterprises with no value

(tick)

-

(minus) Deprecated in version 6.1.0. Replaced with Abiquo price factor

amazon_mpa

Set to "dedicated" or "no" to use blended costs.
If not present or "shared", use unblended costs

(tick)

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amazon_discount

Discount you have agreed on with Amazon. Typical values are 0.03, 0.02 or similar.(tick)

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Configure reseller customers in Abiquo

To configure billing dashboards in Abiquo for customers of resellers

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AWS enterprise properties for customers of resellers table

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Property

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Description

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Previous name

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Migration for v5.2.0

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amazon_price_factor

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Markup or discount applied by the partner to their customer.
The default value is 1.

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(tick)

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create a price factor for the reseller. Optionally, create and apply price factors for customers.

See Manage price factors