Everyone, and welcome back to the knowledgeable video series.
And in today's lecture will be speaking more about consolidated building.
Now Consolidated Billing is a very nice feature which was brought.
And this is something which typically organizations who have multiple AWB accounts should be using.
So let's go ahead and understand more about it.
So as we have discussed lots of organization nowadays, they follow the approach of having multiple
AWB accounts.
So by this, I mean that many of the organizations they have separate AWB are going for development
environment, separate AWB account for staging and even separate items are going for production.
Now, this is one of the best practices and it helps in making sure that things remain separate.
Now, it brings quite a good amount of benefit, not only into security as well as into the costing
factor.
Now I am doing consultancy work for many startups and typically one of the recent startups, they are
having issues related to costing and they have around three to four accounts individually and they have
never done consolidated building and they're actually facing a lot of costing related factor.
So consolidated billing is something that we are on the process of achieving for that start up.
And it will help them a lot as far as the costing factor is concerned.
So let's go ahead and understand on what other benefits the consolidated billing would bring to a typical
organization.
So taking the example of a startup, so a startup, this is one of the uses scenario where a startup
has three seconds and they basically pay for each and each individual eatables account separately.
So at the end of the month, they get three separate build and they pay for each and every account individually.
So they get Belove Account County they paid individually, builder for can be paid individual, builder
for county paid individually.
And this is one of the scenarios which you will find a lot of organizations who are having multiple
eyewitness accounts.
So this is the typical scenario.
Let's look and do what consolidated billing would really look like.
So what happens in Consolidated Billing is that we need to link all of our established accounts with
the central being account through the help of eight of those organizations.
So you have three established accounts.
You link all of these established accounts with the central banking account with the help of established
organization.
Now, what typically happens is.
This central being a country is also an eyewitness account, and when you link all of these accounts
to the central account, this is called the consolidated building, then the bill of all these accounts
can be visible in this central account.
And this actually brings a lot of benefit.
So before we go into the benefit, let me show you on how exactly this can be done.
So if you go to the editors organizations.
You see, there is a button called Create Organization earlier, actually, Consolidated Billing was
part of the billing section.
Let me just open up the billing dashboard.
So if you see there is an option of consolidated billing and now it says consolidated billing has now
been replaced by a terrorist organization.
So we need to go to a terrorist organization if we want to work with consolidated billing.
So when you go ahead and click on Create Organization, there are two major features.
One is for enabling all the features or secondly, for enabling only consolidated billing.
So if I just enable only the consolidated billing and create the organization now you're it will actually
show you only the current account.
But you can actually add multiple accounts within the aid of this organization.
So Asset B account is also a Deblieux account and within the P p account you go to a terrorist organization
and you add another account that will be linked.
So if I have a copy, I click on a new account and I put the account ID of this account that I have.
So we will be looking into this in the upcoming letters.
But I hope you understood how we can add new accounts to our central being account.
So speaking about the benefits that consolidated billing gives US forces, it gives us one bill.
Berling database account will be looking into this when we do the practical.
Second is that it becomes quite easy to allocate costing and budget because we can actually get a single
bit of account, a single bill of account B, single BELOVE, account C, so if this is a development,
if this is a production and if this is a staging from being a country, can easily see that devlopment
account is costing us a thousand dollars for a production account is costing us 5000 dollars.
So it becomes quite easy to allocate köstinger budget.
So if development account is costing us a thousand dollars, we can maybe say, OK, it's time to reduce
the costing expenditure of development account so that it becomes much more easier.
Third is, it brings a lot of benefits related to the volume pricing.
Now, if you go into the AWB, there are lot of benefits when you increase their usage.
So this is one of the pricing of AWB S3.
So you see the first 50.
Beeby Berman has a cost of zero point zero two three per GBE.
Now after 50 DB, if you use more the next 450 DB you, the amount is reduced to zero point zero to
two.
And furthermore, if you go more higher or if you use more higher, then then the usage has become much
more lower.
So the more you use, the less you need to be, and this helps a lot specifically when you do a consolidated
building.
So what happens when you do a consolidated building is that a three judge is combined together.
So you see first 50 terabyte is zero point zero 23 per month.
So let's assume that the production account is using 45 terabyte and the devlopment account is using
six terabyte.
Now, in the paying account, you will be charged for today, 51 terabyte of S3 storage, now 51 terabytes.
So for the first 50 terabyte, we will be paying zero point zero to three dollars per job.
And for the next one terabyte, we will be paying zero point zero to do so.
The volume pricing actually are combined together for all the Lincoln.
So this is one important thing to remember.
And last but very important point to remember is that benefit.
Of consolidated billing is applicable even for the reserved instances as well.
So let's look into how exactly that would work.
So I have one account and I have to link Darkon.
So this is the consolidated billing that we have achieved.
Now, in their account, I have running six OnDemand instances and in production I have six reserved
instances that I have brought and I'm running only three instances.
So let's assume that all of these are of the same instance, the same instance family.
So now what will happen?
This in broad account, you will see that only three instances are running.
However, I have the capacity of six reserve Constancio six in reserve instance are getting unutilized
in the production account.
So now if you're using the consolidated billing, what would happen is the unused three days of intense
pricing will apply for their dev account as well.
So as far as the total cost is concerned, you will only be paying for the three OnDemand instances
pricing since.
I have six reserved instances and I'm only using three in consolidated building, the remaining three
reserved, for instance, pricing will be applicable for their dev account as well.
So if you subtract three minus three and then you have you'll only be charged for that three on the
minor instances.
So these are some of the benefits then you are using the consolidated building.
So I hope you understood the word view about what consolidated billing is all about.
And there are certain important pointers and best practices as far as the exams are concerned.
That you need to remember is that whatever the billing account is, so this being a con, it is recommended
that it should only be used for billing purposes only do not deployer do not create any resources in
the penal code.
Second is, by default, we can have a maximum of 20 linked accounts, so this accounts which are linked
to the central account, this have the limit of maximum 20 by default, which can be increased.
And third, which is a very important point as far as Exum is concerned, is that.
That even when the big account is individual and it does not have access on the resource of other accounts.
This is very important.
So whenever you are working at Consolidated Billing, even if the account and account be a link to the
bank account, this means that being accountable does not have access to the source of any of the account.
So you have to remember, even if they're linked, being account will not have any access to the resource
of each of these linked accounts.
So these are some of the important pointers for the example that we need to remember.
I hope this has been informative for you.
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