Billing
Billing is the process where the cloud computing service subscribers are charged
based on the metered data. Billing usually happens on a monthly basis. Billing uses
pricing rates defined against usage plans and compute the invoice against the usage
data.
Metering
Metering measures levels of resource utilization, such as network bandwidth usage and
data storage volume, consumed by the cloud services subscribers, aka tenants.
Resource utilization's (bandwidth and storage usage) are measured on the fly and the
measured data is stored for summarizing and analyzing.
Account Management
Account management allows a tenant to update and validate contact information,
update the usage plan, validate the account and even de-activate the account .
Users and Roles
You can add users and define your own roles for a tenant. The permission model is
role based. So a tenant admin can define what actions a role can perform by
configuring permissions for that role.
Usage Metering and Throttling
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