Chapter 6. Intercloud Accounting and Billing

This chapter covers the following topics:

Image Accounting and Billing in the Intercloud: This section covers the accounting and billing taxonomy for cloud/Intercloud used in the industry, billing considerations for the Intercloud, services typically billed in the Intercloud, and the division of responsibility between service providers and service users for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. Also, the items that can be billed in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS are detailed. In addition, revenue considerations when the resources are federated and consumed are discussed in detail.

Intercloud Accounting and Billing Architecture:

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