New ACT Tool Overview for AWS & SoftLayer Cloud account holders to optimize account usage and billing.

1. CMI ACT Tool
Billing Consolidation & Cost Optimization Tool

2. 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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3. 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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4. Consolidated Billing & Account Provisioning
AWS and SoftLayer Spend
What is ACT
Billing & Invoicing
Individual and Aggregate Usage
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5.  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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6. 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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7. ACT Key Feature Highlights
 Single Consolidated/Simplified Invoice
 Drill down capabilities
Billing & Invoicing
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8. 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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9. AWS Consolidated Billing vs. ACT
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10.  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
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11. Thank You

12. 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 Payer
Account
Linked Account Linked Account Linked Account
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13. 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
Customer
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Customer
2
Customer
1
Customer
2
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 Payer
Account
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14. 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
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