Anodot cost intelligence documentation

Anodot for Resellers

This section describes how Anodot Cost provides cloud resellers with the tools to simplify their internal processes, and manage customer cloud costs.

The following cloud platforms are supported for resellers:

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • Multi-cloud

Resellers can access the dedicated Partner tools from the left Navigation Panel, as described below.

Partner tools

The Partner section provides a set of tools that enable resellers to manage their customers, control the re-billing (credits, billing rules, and preferences), and create invoice reporting. perhaps most importantly, view, analyze, and export customer billing after the re-billing process.

 

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In addition. The pricing and Scope modes provide the reseller with quick access to their customer costs:

Pricing mode

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The Pricing mode enables the reseller to view the cost and usage cost in either of the following perspectives:

  • Partner - the original costs that originated from billing as received from the cloud provider.
  • Customer - the recalculated costs post Anodot's re-billing process, performed on top of the original billing and taking into consideration tiers, RI/SP allocation, billing rules and reseller credits.

The Pricing Mode is supported the following capabilities:

  • Cost & Usage Explorer
  • K8s Cost & Usage Explorer
  • Dashboards
  • Assets
  • K8s Assets
  • Anomaly Detection Alerts-In the case of 'Customer' pricing the alert will be triggered corresponding to the customer price.
  • Cost Alerts-In the case of 'Customer' pricing the alert will be triggered corresponding to the customer price.
  • Budgets- Budget cost presentation and alerting
  • AWS SP Utilization - Charge Back
  • AWS RI Utilization - RI Flexibility
  • Partner-Billing History- RI Margin, SP Margin, Billing Rules Margin, AWS Credit Margin, Reseller Credit Margin details

Scope mode

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This mode enables the reseller to view all their customers in the 'Main account' view, and to impersonate a selected customer. Impersonating a customer provides the reseller with visibility to the platform in the way the customer will see it.