Welcome - AWS Marketplace Metering Service

Welcome

This reference provides descriptions of the low-level AWS Marketplace Metering Service API.

AWS Marketplace sellers can use this API to submit usage data for custom usage dimensions.

For information about the permissions that you need to use this API, see AWS Marketplace metering and entitlement API permissions in the AWS Marketplace Seller Guide.

Submitting metering records

MeterUsage

  • Submits the metering record for an AWS Marketplace product.

  • Called from: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance or a container running on either Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) or Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

  • Supported product types: Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) and containers

  • Vendor-metered tagging: Supported allocation tagging

BatchMeterUsage

  • Submits the metering record for a set of customers. BatchMeterUsage API calls are captured by AWS CloudTrail. You can use CloudTrail to verify that the software as a subscription (SaaS) metering records that you sent are accurate by searching for records with the eventName of BatchMeterUsage. You can also use CloudTrail to audit records over time. For more information, see the AWS CloudTrail User Guide.

  • Called from: SaaS applications

  • Supported product type: SaaS

  • Vendor-metered tagging: Supports allocation tagging

Accepting new customers

ResolveCustomer

  • Resolves the registration token that the buyer submits through the browser during the registration process. Obtains a CustomerIdentifier along with the CustomerAWSAccountId and ProductCode.

  • Called from: SaaS application during the registration process

  • Supported product type: SaaS

  • Vendor-metered tagging: Not applicable

Entitlement and metering for paid container products

RegisteredUsage

  • Provides software entitlement and metering. Paid container software products sold through AWS Marketplace must integrate with the AWS Marketplace Metering Service and call the RegisterUsage operation. Free and Bring Your Own License model (BYOL) products for Amazon ECS or Amazon EKS aren't required to call RegisterUsage. However, you can do so if you want to receive usage data in your seller reports. For more information about using the RegisterUsage operation, see Container-based products.

  • Called from: Paid container software products

  • Supported product type: Containers

  • Vendor-metered tagging: Not applicable

Entitlement custom metering for container products

  • Metering:MeterUsage API is available in GovCloud Regions but only supports AMI FCP products in GovCloud Regions. Flexible Consumption Pricing (FCP) Container products aren’t supported in GovCloud Regions: us-gov-west-1 and us-gov-east-1. For more information, see Container-based products.

  • Custom metering for container products are called using the Metering:MeterUsage API. The API is used for FCP AMI and FCP Container product metering.

Custom metering for Amazon EKS is available in 17 AWS Regions

  • The metering service supports Amazon ECS and EKS for Flexible Consumption Pricing (FCP) products using Metering:MeterUsage API. Amazon ECS is supported in all AWS Regions that Metering:MeterUsage API is available except for GovCloud.

  • Amazon EKS is supported in the following: us-east-1, us-east-2, us-west-1, us-west-2, eu-west-1, eu-central-1, eu-west-2, eu-west-3, eu-north-1, ap-east-1, ap-southeast-1, ap-northeast-1, ap-southeast-2, ap-northeast-2, ap-south-1, ca-central-1, sa-east-1.

    Note

    For questions about adding AWS Regions for metering, contact AWS Marketplace Seller Operations.

This document was last published on November 30, 2023.