Ask HN: How do you set up a system to track customer's usage in AWS?

Re:Ask HN: How do you set up a system to track customer's us... by necovek on Thursday October 27, 2022 @03:05PM (#33362430)

There used to be an AWS marketplace where you could create your own "app" on top of AWS.

I remember that you could have an add-on for EC2 instances where Amazon would call back your service with EC2 usage data.

The biggest issue was that you had to pass spreadsheets around to get set up, but that was 6+ years ago when Amazon just introduced the feature.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you set up a system to track customer's us... by necovek on Thursday October 27, 2022 @03:09PM (#33362486)

And it's indeed still called AWS marketplace: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/search

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Re:Ask HN: How do you set up a system to track customer's us... by Mojmalik on Thursday October 27, 2022 @03:40PM (#33362941)

Ohhh nice I’ll see if they have any billing apps

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Re:Ask HN: How do you set up a system to track customer's us... by necovek on Thursday October 27, 2022 @08:14PM (#33365843)

I don't think you want a billing app there, but instead, you'd develop your own app and publish on AWS marketplace. You can get them to bill for your service on top of their charges too (basically, if I activate your "app" for my ec2 instance, I get billed for ec2 usage and whatever pricing you set up yourself).

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