Differences between Consolidated, Standalone, and Full Account Family Billing Blocks

Products

• CloudHealth

Issue/Introduction

There are three available types of Billing Block for PGB (Partner Generated Billing) customers: Consolidated, Standalone, and Full Account Family. The following information will explain the differences between the Billing Blocks regarding what will be passed through to the Customer tenant and what won't under each configuration type.

Resolution

Consolidated: This type of partner generated billing creates a single bill for all customer accounts within the Billing Block. Tax/VAT, reseller credits, AWS Support, Private Rate Discounts, EDP discounts, and tiering benefits are removed from the generated bill. RI (Reserved Instance) Float is recalculated based on the accounts present within the block and available usage, RI's (Reserved Instance) are applied on a first-come/first-serve basis. Tiering discounts are reapplied and based on all combined accounts within the bill. One PGB statement will be generated for all accounts within the Billing Block. 

Standalone: This type of partner generated billing creates a single bill for each customer account within the Billing Block. Again, Tax/VAT, reseller credits, AWS Support, and tiering benefits are removed from the generated bill. Here, RI float is not applicable since only one account exists in each bill. Tiering discounts will be reapplied based on every single account in its own bill. One PGB statement will be generated for each account within the Billing Block.  

Full Account Family: This type of partner generated billing creates a single bill for all your customer accounts. All costs are charged to the customer accounts except for reseller credits and Tax/VAT, which are removed from the generated bill. One PGB Statement will be generated for the Billing Block.  

There is no limit to the number of Billing Block combinations that can be made.

RI usage

• Standalone- CloudHealth does not apply RI float
• Consolidated- CloudHealth does apply RI float within the billing block

​Tiering discount

• Standalone- CloudHealth treats each account as getting their own tiering discount
• Consolidated - CloudHealth treats the billing block as getting a combined tiering discount

​Statement generation

• Standalone - 1 statement per account
• Consolidated- 1 statement per billing block (Designated Payer is the ‘virtual’ Consolidated account, others listed as linked)

​Statement processing

• Standalone- 1 CUR and 1 prep file per account
• Consolidated - 1 CUR and 1 prep file per billing block