Synchronize public cloud price lists

The platform can import hardware profile prices from public cloud for use in pricing. The prices are for Linux instances and for AWS the only currency available is US dollars.

Before you begin:

1. Check that there is a public cloud region for the provider. See Create a public cloud region.
2. Check that the tenant has a pricing model assigned. See Create a new pricing model
   1. For Amazon regions, we recommend that you use US Dollars as the currency for the regions in the pricing model 
3. Obtain credentials to retrieve pricing information from the provider
   1. For AWS pricing, an IAMs user must have the AWSPriceListServiceFullAccess permission. You can add the permission to the regular public cloud user account or create a separate user. See Obtain AWS credentials

   2. For Azure, see Obtain Azure ARM credentials.

      Tenant type	Format_of_Access_ Key_ID_for Pricing_____	Secret access key	Notes
      Standard account	normal#subscription-id#app-id#tenant-id#offer-durable-id OR subscription-id#app-id#tenant-id#offer-durable-id	Application secret key	Add the text string "normal#" as a prefix to the pricing credentials. To facilitate upgrades, existing credentials will remain valid
      CSP account owner	csp#tenantId#accessToken#refreshToken	Application secret key	You MUST add the text string "csp#" as a prefix to the credentials
      Customer of CSP	-	-	Do not enter credentials because the platform will use the CSP credentials

To retrieve the hardware profile prices:

1. Add pricing credentials for the tenant 
   1. From the username menu go to Edit credentials or go to Users → edit enterprise
   2. Go to Credentials → Public (for compute or for combined credentials in Amazon) or Pricing (for separate credentials)
   3. Enter the credentials

2. If the tenant is a CSP and/or reseller, go to Properties and enter the following properties as appropriate:

   azurecompute-arm_discount=0.2
   amazon_discount=0

   Note that CSP accounts return the prices with the discount factor applied, so the platform will not apply it again.

3. If the tenant is a customer of the CSP and/or reseller, go to Properties and enter the following properties as appropriate:

   azurecompute-arm_price_factor=1.25
   amazon_price_factor=1.17

4. When you save the tenant, if the pricing credentials are present, the platform will retrieve the prices. 

To display the prices of public cloud hardware profiles:

1. Go to Pricing → Pricing models → edit pricing model.
2. Go to Resource Prices → select the provider 
3. For each hardware profile, enter a New price as required
4. Click Save

The platform will update the hardware profile prices from the public cloud provider every 24 hours, or at the interval set in the abiquo.properties file. See Abiquo Configuration Properties#pricing

To configure the suffix of the price list sync properties, see Abiquo Configuration Properties#enterprise.