Hello, my name is Dave Shrestha. I'm an Intel Cloud Solution Architect. Today, I'll be covering Module 5, Native Cloud Billing Management and Reporting Tools. In this module, you will learn about how invoices are delivered in Azure, AWS, and GCP, cost and usage reporting, native cost explorer reporting, and we will look at examples of some reports. Now, let us begin. Most enterprises will have some form of enterprise agreements, either directly with the Cloud provider or will have a contract with their reseller or partner. This module will focus only on the direct enterprise agreement as there are too many differences to fully discuss partner and reseller contracts. In Azure, if the customer has an Azure enterprise agreement, they can't go to the Azure EA portal and download and view Azure invoices from the report section of the EA portal or from Azure uses and charges from the Azure portal itself. Azure invoices can also be emailed directly to them. From Azure EA portal, you can download monthly balance, get uses details, and practicing sheets. Note that the invoices are generated based on type of billing account. For Azure Cloud, the most common billing account is the enterprise agreement. Other types of billing accounts are Microsoft Online Services Program, Microsoft Customer Agreement, and Microsoft Partner Program. In AWS, the invoices can be viewed and downloaded from the AWS billing and management console. The bills page of the AWS billing and Cost Management Console allows you to see and download AWS invoices. For enterprises using consolidated billing feature in AWS organizations, the bills page list totals for all accounts linked to the master pair of the organization. AWS invoices can also be sent in an email. In GCP, invoices and bills can be viewed and downloaded from the Google Cloud Console for Cloud billing account. Statements and invoices can be viewed or downloaded from the documents page. Cloud billing account set up as an invoiced account generates one invoice each month. GCP invoices can also be sent in email. There are two types of payment profiles in GCP, individual where you are using your account for your own personal payments, and business, where you're paying on behalf of a business, organization, partnership, or educational institution. Now that we know how to view and download invoices, let's look at the native Cost Explorer and reporting capabilities at Azure, AWS, and GCP. In Azure, they have the Azure Cost Management and Billing tool that can be accessed from the Azure Portal. Azure Cost Management and Billing in the Azure portal helps you understand and conduct billing administrative tasks, manage your subscriptions, monitoring and control your spending and optimize your resources. The main features of Azure Cost Management and Billing are the cost management section and the billing section. Cost management section has cost analysis, cost alerts, budgets, and advisor recommendations. The billing section has usage and charges, credits, and invoices, among other things. Here's a sample screenshot of the Azure Cost Management and Billing tool from the Azure portal. As you can see, the main sections are on the left navigation plane, which includes the cost management and the billing sections. Under the cost management sections, you will have the ability to do cost analysis, setup cost alerts, set up budgets, review Azure Advisor recommendations for managing Azure Cloud costs for your deployments. Under the billing section of the Azure Cost Management and Billing tool, you can view and download monthly Azure uses and charges, view credits, view and download invoices, view reservation, transactions, view departments and cost for the departments, and view and manage accounts. Here's some sample is your invoice that you can view in the cost management and billing tool. Again, this is under the billing section of the Azure Cost Management and Billing tool. Note, as of November 2021, the invoice section on your billing is still in preview and not GA. The AWS Native Cost Explorer is called AWS Billing and Cost Management tool, and it's accessible from the AWS portal. Other tools within the AWS cost explorer are the costs and usage reports and the AWS Cost Explorer. With the billing and cost management dashboard of the AWS console, you can explore and manage all aspects of your AWS cost. The key areas of billing and cost management dashboards are billing, which has bills, payments, credits, and costs, and usage reports. The cost management, which has cost explorer, budgets and reports, savings plans, and consolidated billing. To use the AWS costs and usage report, you go to the AWS billing and cost management tool from the AWS portal, and then click on the cost and usage reports where you will be able to export the report to an S3 bucket. There are many options when exporting the report. Pay attention to the available options for things like enabling a report data integration to Amazon, Athena, Redshift or QuickSight. Once you have successfully exported the cost of niches report, you can go to the specified S3 bucket and view or download the report. Be careful when downloading the curve as the file size can be very large depending on the deployment size of the enterprise of course. The curve will look something like this screenshot. Another key area, the AWS and Cost Management tool is the AWS costs explorer. In AWS costs explorer, there are three pre-configured views that can be customized. Monthly spend by service views, monthly spend by LinkedIn account views, and daily spend views. There are also many options and an ability to download the report to a CSV. In GCP, the native cost explorer tool is called GCP billing with key sections that include reports for viewing and downloading various pre-built reports and customizable reports. Cost breakdown, which shows you your base uses cost and how the cost was affected by any credits, adjustments, and taxes to arrive as your total cost. Commitments. This is a summary of your committed use discounts by commitment type. Budgets. Budgets tracks expenses within a Google Cloud Platform project or billing account. Your budget can be specified amount or based on our previous spend. You can set up alerts to notify billing admins and users when a budget goes over the spending about. Pricing. Costs associated with the billing counters associated with the contract. In GCP portal, you can go to the report section in the billing module to view and printed reports for cost in GCP. There are many options including grouping options, data ranges, etc. You can also save and share these reports in GCP. The cost breakdown section of GCP billing a module allows you to view and share the breakdown of your cost by either percentage or amount spent. You will be able to view your reports for usage cost and see any discounts credits to your account. Now, let's look at a demo of how to download Azure uses and charge for the last quarter. I'm going to go over how to download a customer usage report to using the Azure Portal. I'm logged into the Azure portal right now. I'm in the Services section. You can just filter by customer usage report or if it says I've used it recently, it's here. Or we could go to the management and governments section and go to cost management and billing section. Here you will see various options where we're going to focus on today is under the billing sections. Go to usage and charges. Here, you could go ahead and now start downloading for any particular month. Right now, I'm looking at a timespan of last 12 months. You could look at different time spans. Let's look at, for example, last month, you could click on "Download Option". When you click on the download button, you'll have a pop-up window. Here you have different options you could select. Then what you could do is once you're ready to download, you could go ahead and click on "Prepare Document" if you want to do Usage details. If you want to do marketplace store charges, a price sheet or etc. What I'm going to do is, I'm going to just do all charges, uses, and purchased and I'm going to go ahead and click on "Prepare Document." It's going to take some time and it's going to let me know when that document is done. Once that's done, you could go to your downloads sections in your computer and you should see the file there for you to review. I hope that helps. Thank you. As I remember 2021, both Standard and Enterprise account customers can generate and view their invoices from the Azure portal. However, EA customers can still use the EA portal. Note, this process is valid as of November 2021 and is subject to change. In this module, native Cloud Billing Management reporting tools, you learned about how invoices that delivered, cost and usage reporting, native Cost Explorer and reporting capabilities, and an example of downloading your report in Azure. Thank you very much.
