Chapter 9. Billing and Chargeback
Upon completing this chapter, you should be able to understand the following:
• Billing and chargeback terminology
• Cloud consumers and cloud providers
• Cloud services billing considerations
• Cloud Order-to-Cash process flow
• Billing and chargeback architecture
The cloud service providers will be offering the new cloud services: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). Also, enterprises will offer cloud services for internal consumption by various departments within the company, such as engineering, payroll, sales, and others. From a service perspective, this new cloud environment creates many important challenges that did not apply in the traditional ...
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