cmi act tool for aws & softlayer accounts

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

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