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AWS Billing Conductor now supports custom rates and usage tier pricing configurations

AWS Billing Conductor now allows defining custom rates and usage tiers via SKU-scoped pricing rules, enabling easier reflection of negotiated pricing on pro forma billing data for commercial agreements.

AWS Billing Conductor lets you define custom rates for AWS services, enabling tiered usage pricing. Customers and partners can easily apply negotiated prices to proforma billing data when modeling commercial agreements with subsidiaries, associates, or end customers. You can enter custom rates using SKU-limited price rules and set usage tier thresholds, allowing direct control over accurate pricing and tier breaks without calculating markups or markdowns on public on-demand rates tied to predefined AWS usage tiers. This feature is available across all commercial AWS regions except Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region (operated by Sinnet) and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region (operated by NWCD).

Why it matters

AWS Billing Conductor is a tool for accurately modeling inter-company billing prices, and this update enables custom rates and usage tier configurations, allowing negotiated prices to be accurately reflected in pro forma billing data.

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