7.3 Origination of Cost Data
Cost data presented in the billing datasets originates from various sources depending on the purchasing mechanism. There are at least 3 different pieces of information that are important for understanding where cost originated from.
- Provider: The entity that made the resources or services available for purchase.
- Publisher: The entity that produced the resources or services that were purchased.
- Invoice Issuer: The entity responsible for invoicing for the resources or services consumed.
The value for each of these may be different depending on the various purchasing scenarios for resources or services. Use cases for purchasing direct, via a Managed Service Provider (MSP), via a cloud marketplace, and from internal service offerings were considered. The table below presents a few scenarios to show how the value for each dimension may change based on the purchasing scenario.
| # | Scenario | Provider | Publisher | Invoice Issuer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1 | Purchasing cloud services directly from cloud provider | Cloud service provider | Cloud service provider | Cloud service provider |
| 1.2 | Purchasing cloud services from the cloud provider where the cloud region is operated by a 3rd party | Cloud service provider | Cloud service provider | Entity operating the region for the cloud service provider |
| 2.1 | Purchasing cloud services via MSP | Managed Service Provider | Cloud service provider | Managed Service Provider |
| 2.2 | Purchasing cloud-agnostic resources or services built/sold by an MSP | Managed Service Provider | Managed Service Provider | Managed Service Provider |
| 2.3 | Purchasing labor services from managed service provider | Managed Service Provider | Managed Service Provider | Managed Service Provider |
| 3.1 | Purchasing a cloud marketplace offering that runs on the cloud provider | Cloud service provider | Company building the software or services (Cloud service provider OR third-party software or services company) | Cloud service provider |
| 3.2 | Purchasing a cloud marketplace offering that is not running directly on your cloud infrastructure (e.g,. SaaS product, Professional Services) | Cloud service provider | Company producing the SaaS or services product | Cloud service provider |
| 3.3 | Purchasing a SaaS product that is not directly running on your cloud infrastructure from a 3rd party reseller managed cloud marketplace | Cloud service provider | SaaS provider | Reseller |
| 4.1 | Purchasing SaaS software directly from provider | SaaS provider | SaaS provider | SaaS provider |
| 4.2 | Purchasing SaaS software that additionally runs on your cloud resources (in addition to #4.1) | Cloud service provider | Cloud service provider | Cloud service provider |
| 5.1 | Purchasing internal infrastructure or services offerings running on-premise | Internal product name | Internal product name | Internal product name |
| 5.2 | Purchasing internal infrastructure or services offerings running on cloud | Internal product name | Internal product name | Internal product name |
| 5.3 | Associated software license cost for use on an on-premise infrastructure platform (Where license cost is presented separately in cost data) | Internal product name | Company producing the software | Internal product name |