cmi act tool for aws & softlayer accounts
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CMI ACT ToolBilling Consolidation & Cost Optimization Tool
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37 years in business in Bay Area
Cloud Solution Provider Architecture Services
• Strategy & Planning• Architecture & Design• Deployment & Migration• Staff augmentation
Cost Optimization (ACT)• Billing Consolidation and Cost Savings
for AWS & SoftLayer
CMI Overview
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Experts in AWS and SoftLayer Architecture
• Architect and deploy complex AWS and SoftLayer environments(EC2, EBS, ELB, RDS, Route 53, S3, VPC, VPN, CloudFront, CloudFormation)
• Architect and support global VPC deployment (Python, CloudFormation, git)
• Automation enablement(Chef, Puppet, Ansible, inotifywait)
• DevOps enablement & support• Custom scripting capabilities
(git, cron, nohup)
CMI Cloud Architecture Team
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Consolidated Billing & Account Provisioning
AWS and SoftLayer Spend
What is ACT
Billing & Invoicing
Individual and Aggregate Usage
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Tool driven account provisioning Integrated consolidated billing model
ACT Key Feature Highlights
AWS Consolidated Billing Master
Account
Customer Linked Account
Customer Linked Account
Customer Linked Account
Consolidated Billing & Account Provisioning
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ACT Key Feature Highlights
Detailed billing history data and analysis reports
Recommendations to help lower overall cost of AWS
Average savings 20-30%!!
AWS/SoftLayer Spend
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ACT Key Feature Highlights
Single Consolidated/Simplified Invoice Drill down capabilities
Billing & Invoicing
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ACT Key Feature Highlights
Dashboard and drill-down views Accounts Product Categories Resource IDs (tags) Cost centers
Detailed reporting Financial Product EULA Reserved Instances
Full Billing History with Hourly Detail
Individual and Aggregate Usage
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AWS Consolidated Billing vs. ACT
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Reduce AWS /SoftLayer account sprawl Take advantage of compute and storage volume tiers
Consolidated Billing & Account Provisioning
Improve oversight/control of departmental spend Optimize costs through RI purchases with analytics/recommendations
AWS/SoftLayer Spend
Summary
Billing & Invoicing Single Consolidated/Simplified Invoice Drill down capabilities
Accurately assign and manage charge-back costs Granular reporting for departmental level visibility
Individual & Aggregate Usage
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Thank You
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What is AWS Consolidated Billing?
Consolidated Billing of Linked Accounts
AWS Consolidated Billing Master
Account
Customer Linked Account
Customer Linked Account
Customer Linked Account
Benefits• Consolidated Billing allows your
customers to bring all of their current AWS accounts together
• 1 PO Based Bill instead of multiple credit card bills
• Provides ability to buy RI’s at the organization level to buy down your cost of compute
Limitations• Model only supports a single tier• RI costs are blended evenly
across all accounts• Complex invoices• Doesn’t provide usage analytics
or cost optimization
Master PayerAccount
Linked Account Linked Account Linked Account
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CMI Cloud Toolset (ACT) Multi-Tier Billing Platform
AWS Consolidated Billing Master
Account
Customer Account Customer Account
N-Tier Consolidated Billing
Department
Daughter Company
Department
Department
Customer1
Customer2
Customer1
Customer2
Department
Daughter Company
Department
Department Multi-Tier Consolidated and granular customer usage tracking
Accurately allocate RI discounts
Reseller Cloud Bill
ACT
Customer Account Customer Account
Linked Account Linked Account
Master PayerAccount
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ACT Enterprise Grade Security
Highly-available, secure application built on AWS infrastructure using industry best practices Secure VPCs Least privilege access Security groups Multiple-AZ’s Hot/Hot Failover