USE CASES

Infrastructure, PaaS and APIs

  • Easily meter the runtime for any cloud infrastructure or PaaS offering
  • Aggregate, sort, and group meter data by instance type, number of cores, or any other custom identifier
  • See realtime instance usage in dashboards and reflected on invoice balance
Itay Link
VP of Finance,
Firebolt
Amberflo was able to seamlessly and successfully, in record time, deploy its metering and billing platform and integrate with our sales, accounting, and cloud marketplace systems to enable end-to-end customer onboarding and provisioning.

With Amberflo, we are able to delight our customers with accurate, on-demand real time billing and usage dashboards, which are an integrated part of our overall product experience.
Meter any cloud-based resource

Easily track cloud data storage across any number of locations, meter the runtime of compute consumed, or track the unique number of interactions with an API, without building custom logic.

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Out-of-the-box meter aggregation rules include sum, max, duration, unique count, running total, and max-persist

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Use our SDKs or APIs to meter usage at the source for realtime performance

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Create and deploy meters in minutes, without writing custom code

Define and bill on your own custom attributes and dimensions

Create custom dimensions, or additional metadata associated with meter records, to capture attributes such as the instance type, number of cores, amount of memory, and more, then leverage them for billing.

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Build custom ‘By Dimension’ rate tables for any unique permutations of dimension values

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Group and filter data by dimension values for reporting and analytics

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Create specific discounts and promotions by instance type or other dimension

Visualize and query usage data in real time

Track resource consumption in realtime. Create and share custom reports to communicate usage and adoption metrics throughout your business.

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Meter data is persisted and aggregated from moment it is sent to Amberflo

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No latency or additional ETL required to track and visualize usage, it automatically appears in the usage dashboards as it is ingested

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Create, save, and share specific reports breaking down usage and revenue data by custom dimension

Build flexible usage-based pricing plans

Build pricing plans with any number of product items (charge vectors), as well as custom artifacts such as a recurring fixed-rate charge (i.e. a platform fee), and automated rewards, promotions, and discounts.

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Charge by instance type, number of cores, amount of data processed, IT location, or any other custom dimension that makes sense.

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Support reserved instance model with prepayment for specific instances or instance types

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Create, save, and share specific reports breaking down usage and revenue data by custom dimension

Generate real-time metered invoices as usage occurs

Automatically generate up-to-date metered invoices in realtime. As meters are sent to Amberflo, usage is aggregated, billed, and added to the running invoice for the current billing cycle.

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View on-demand invoices showing the amount due and corresponding usage charges at any point in the billing cycle

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Create custom Alerts to be notified when the usage or invoice amount reaches a certain threshold

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Operate your business with total transparency and real-time awareness to system usage, consumption, and cost