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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