AWS SDK Version 3 for .NET
API Reference

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Interface for accessing AWSMarketplaceMetering

Amazon Web Services Marketplace Metering Service

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

Amazon Web Services 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 Amazon Web Services Marketplace metering and entitlement API permissions in the Amazon Web Services Marketplace Seller Guide.

Submitting metering records

MeterUsage

BatchMeterUsage

Accepting new customers

ResolveCustomer

Entitlement and metering for paid container products

RegisteredUsage

Entitlement custom metering for container products

Custom metering for Amazon EKS is available in 17 Amazon Web Services Regions

Inheritance Hierarchy

Amazon.AWSMarketplaceMetering.IAmazonAWSMarketplaceMetering

Namespace: Amazon.AWSMarketplaceMetering
Assembly: AWSSDK.AWSMarketplaceMetering.dll
Version: 3.x.y.z

Syntax

C#
public interface IAmazonAWSMarketplaceMetering
         IAmazonService, IDisposable

The IAmazonAWSMarketplaceMetering type exposes the following members

Methods

Note:

Asynchronous operations (methods ending with Async) in the table below are for .NET 4.5 or higher. For .NET 3.5 the SDK follows the standard naming convention of BeginMethodName and EndMethodName to indicate asynchronous operations - these method pairs are not shown in the table below.

NameDescription
Public Method BatchMeterUsage(BatchMeterUsageRequest)

The CustomerIdentifier parameter is scheduled for deprecation. Use CustomerAWSAccountID instead.

These parameters are mutually exclusive. You can't specify both CustomerIdentifier and CustomerAWSAccountID in the same request.

To post metering records for customers, SaaS applications call BatchMeterUsage, which is used for metering SaaS flexible consumption pricing (FCP). Identical requests are idempotent and can be retried with the same records or a subset of records. Each BatchMeterUsage request is for only one product. If you want to meter usage for multiple products, you must make multiple BatchMeterUsage calls.

Usage records should be submitted in quick succession following a recorded event. Usage records aren't accepted 6 hours or more after an event.

BatchMeterUsage can process up to 25 UsageRecords at a time, and each request must be less than 1 MB in size. Optionally, you can have multiple usage allocations for usage data that's split into buckets according to predefined tags.

BatchMeterUsage returns a list of UsageRecordResult objects, which have each UsageRecord. It also returns a list of UnprocessedRecords, which indicate errors on the service side that should be retried.

For Amazon Web Services Regions that support BatchMeterUsage, see BatchMeterUsage Region support.

For an example of BatchMeterUsage, see BatchMeterUsage code example in the Amazon Web Services Marketplace Seller Guide.

Public Method BatchMeterUsageAsync(BatchMeterUsageRequest, CancellationToken)

The CustomerIdentifier parameter is scheduled for deprecation. Use CustomerAWSAccountID instead.

These parameters are mutually exclusive. You can't specify both CustomerIdentifier and CustomerAWSAccountID in the same request.

To post metering records for customers, SaaS applications call BatchMeterUsage, which is used for metering SaaS flexible consumption pricing (FCP). Identical requests are idempotent and can be retried with the same records or a subset of records. Each BatchMeterUsage request is for only one product. If you want to meter usage for multiple products, you must make multiple BatchMeterUsage calls.

Usage records should be submitted in quick succession following a recorded event. Usage records aren't accepted 6 hours or more after an event.

BatchMeterUsage can process up to 25 UsageRecords at a time, and each request must be less than 1 MB in size. Optionally, you can have multiple usage allocations for usage data that's split into buckets according to predefined tags.

BatchMeterUsage returns a list of UsageRecordResult objects, which have each UsageRecord. It also returns a list of UnprocessedRecords, which indicate errors on the service side that should be retried.

For Amazon Web Services Regions that support BatchMeterUsage, see BatchMeterUsage Region support.

For an example of BatchMeterUsage, see BatchMeterUsage code example in the Amazon Web Services Marketplace Seller Guide.

Public Method DetermineServiceOperationEndpoint(AmazonWebServiceRequest)

Returns the endpoint that will be used for a particular request.

Public Method MeterUsage(MeterUsageRequest)

API to emit metering records. For identical requests, the API is idempotent and returns the metering record ID. This is used for metering flexible consumption pricing (FCP) Amazon Machine Images (AMI) and container products.

MeterUsage is authenticated on the buyer's Amazon Web Services account using credentials from the Amazon EC2 instance, Amazon ECS task, or Amazon EKS pod.

MeterUsage can optionally include multiple usage allocations, to provide customers with usage data split into buckets by tags that you define (or allow the customer to define).

Usage records are expected to be submitted as quickly as possible after the event that is being recorded, and are not accepted more than 6 hours after the event.

For Amazon Web Services Regions that support MeterUsage, see MeterUsage Region support for Amazon EC2 and MeterUsage Region support for Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS.

Public Method MeterUsageAsync(MeterUsageRequest, CancellationToken)

API to emit metering records. For identical requests, the API is idempotent and returns the metering record ID. This is used for metering flexible consumption pricing (FCP) Amazon Machine Images (AMI) and container products.

MeterUsage is authenticated on the buyer's Amazon Web Services account using credentials from the Amazon EC2 instance, Amazon ECS task, or Amazon EKS pod.

MeterUsage can optionally include multiple usage allocations, to provide customers with usage data split into buckets by tags that you define (or allow the customer to define).

Usage records are expected to be submitted as quickly as possible after the event that is being recorded, and are not accepted more than 6 hours after the event.

For Amazon Web Services Regions that support MeterUsage, see MeterUsage Region support for Amazon EC2 and MeterUsage Region support for Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS.

Public Method RegisterUsage(RegisterUsageRequest)

Paid container software products sold through Amazon Web Services Marketplace must integrate with the Amazon Web Services Marketplace Metering Service and call the RegisterUsage operation for software entitlement and metering. Free and BYOL products for Amazon ECS or Amazon EKS aren't required to call RegisterUsage, but you may choose to do so if you would like to receive usage data in your seller reports. The sections below explain the behavior of RegisterUsage. RegisterUsage performs two primary functions: metering and entitlement.

  • Entitlement: RegisterUsage allows you to verify that the customer running your paid software is subscribed to your product on Amazon Web Services Marketplace, enabling you to guard against unauthorized use. Your container image that integrates with RegisterUsage is only required to guard against unauthorized use at container startup, as such a CustomerNotSubscribedException or PlatformNotSupportedException will only be thrown on the initial call to RegisterUsage. Subsequent calls from the same Amazon ECS task instance (e.g. task-id) or Amazon EKS pod will not throw a CustomerNotSubscribedException, even if the customer unsubscribes while the Amazon ECS task or Amazon EKS pod is still running.

  • Metering: RegisterUsage meters software use per ECS task, per hour, or per pod for Amazon EKS with usage prorated to the second. A minimum of 1 minute of usage applies to tasks that are short lived. For example, if a customer has a 10 node Amazon ECS or Amazon EKS cluster and a service configured as a Daemon Set, then Amazon ECS or Amazon EKS will launch a task on all 10 cluster nodes and the customer will be charged for 10 tasks. Software metering is handled by the Amazon Web Services Marketplace metering control plane—your software is not required to perform metering-specific actions other than to call RegisterUsage to commence metering. The Amazon Web Services Marketplace metering control plane will also bill customers for running ECS tasks and Amazon EKS pods, regardless of the customer's subscription state, which removes the need for your software to run entitlement checks at runtime. For containers, RegisterUsage should be called immediately at launch. If you don’t register the container within the first 6 hours of the launch, Amazon Web Services Marketplace Metering Service doesn’t provide any metering guarantees for previous months. Metering will continue, however, for the current month forward until the container ends. RegisterUsage is for metering paid hourly container products.

    For Amazon Web Services Regions that support RegisterUsage, see RegisterUsage Region support.

Public Method RegisterUsageAsync(RegisterUsageRequest, CancellationToken)

Paid container software products sold through Amazon Web Services Marketplace must integrate with the Amazon Web Services Marketplace Metering Service and call the RegisterUsage operation for software entitlement and metering. Free and BYOL products for Amazon ECS or Amazon EKS aren't required to call RegisterUsage, but you may choose to do so if you would like to receive usage data in your seller reports. The sections below explain the behavior of RegisterUsage. RegisterUsage performs two primary functions: metering and entitlement.

  • Entitlement: RegisterUsage allows you to verify that the customer running your paid software is subscribed to your product on Amazon Web Services Marketplace, enabling you to guard against unauthorized use. Your container image that integrates with RegisterUsage is only required to guard against unauthorized use at container startup, as such a CustomerNotSubscribedException or PlatformNotSupportedException will only be thrown on the initial call to RegisterUsage. Subsequent calls from the same Amazon ECS task instance (e.g. task-id) or Amazon EKS pod will not throw a CustomerNotSubscribedException, even if the customer unsubscribes while the Amazon ECS task or Amazon EKS pod is still running.

  • Metering: RegisterUsage meters software use per ECS task, per hour, or per pod for Amazon EKS with usage prorated to the second. A minimum of 1 minute of usage applies to tasks that are short lived. For example, if a customer has a 10 node Amazon ECS or Amazon EKS cluster and a service configured as a Daemon Set, then Amazon ECS or Amazon EKS will launch a task on all 10 cluster nodes and the customer will be charged for 10 tasks. Software metering is handled by the Amazon Web Services Marketplace metering control plane—your software is not required to perform metering-specific actions other than to call RegisterUsage to commence metering. The Amazon Web Services Marketplace metering control plane will also bill customers for running ECS tasks and Amazon EKS pods, regardless of the customer's subscription state, which removes the need for your software to run entitlement checks at runtime. For containers, RegisterUsage should be called immediately at launch. If you don’t register the container within the first 6 hours of the launch, Amazon Web Services Marketplace Metering Service doesn’t provide any metering guarantees for previous months. Metering will continue, however, for the current month forward until the container ends. RegisterUsage is for metering paid hourly container products.

    For Amazon Web Services Regions that support RegisterUsage, see RegisterUsage Region support.

Public Method ResolveCustomer(ResolveCustomerRequest)

ResolveCustomer is called by a SaaS application during the registration process. When a buyer visits your website during the registration process, the buyer submits a registration token through their browser. The registration token is resolved through this API to obtain a CustomerIdentifier along with the CustomerAWSAccountId and ProductCode.

To successfully resolve the token, the API must be called from the account that was used to publish the SaaS application. For an example of using ResolveCustomer, see ResolveCustomer code example in the Amazon Web Services Marketplace Seller Guide.

Permission is required for this operation. Your IAM role or user performing this operation requires a policy to allow the aws-marketplace:ResolveCustomer action. For more information, see Actions, resources, and condition keys for Amazon Web Services Marketplace Metering Service in the Service Authorization Reference.

For Amazon Web Services Regions that support ResolveCustomer, see ResolveCustomer Region support.

Public Method ResolveCustomerAsync(ResolveCustomerRequest, CancellationToken)

ResolveCustomer is called by a SaaS application during the registration process. When a buyer visits your website during the registration process, the buyer submits a registration token through their browser. The registration token is resolved through this API to obtain a CustomerIdentifier along with the CustomerAWSAccountId and ProductCode.

To successfully resolve the token, the API must be called from the account that was used to publish the SaaS application. For an example of using ResolveCustomer, see ResolveCustomer code example in the Amazon Web Services Marketplace Seller Guide.

Permission is required for this operation. Your IAM role or user performing this operation requires a policy to allow the aws-marketplace:ResolveCustomer action. For more information, see Actions, resources, and condition keys for Amazon Web Services Marketplace Metering Service in the Service Authorization Reference.

For Amazon Web Services Regions that support ResolveCustomer, see ResolveCustomer Region support.

Version Information

.NET:
Supported in: 8.0 and newer, Core 3.1

.NET Standard:
Supported in: 2.0

.NET Framework:
Supported in: 4.5 and newer, 3.5