DoiT and AWS invoice differences

You may have wondered why the costs you see in AWS are different than those you see in the DoiT console. This is maninly due to the recalculation of Saving Plans into Flexsave, support cost, and other billing items.

The AWS invoice is essentially split into three sections:

• A summary breakdown on the front page
• Several pages where the costs are broken out by service
• Several pages listing the costs by linked account

AWS invoices

When you buy AWS cloud through DoiT, your AWS invoice represents what DoiT pays AWS on your behalf. Therefore, not all the fees and discounts you see will be passed onto you, since the invoice includes fees that DoiT pays, and discounts DoiT gets as a cloud reseller.

Regarding the payment schedule, we pay AWS invoices in the following month. That is, in May we process April's billing period invoices. To get into the specific dates, we normally prepare payment lists and send them to AWS for approval around the 17th of each month. AWS then, start taking CC payments manually from the 17th up until the end of the month. Wire payments are usually made around the 20th of the month and then, marked as paid the following week.

Account is at risk of suspension

If you see the account is at risk of suspension notification in your AWS account due to non-payment of invoices that are DoiT's responsibility, you can dismiss it. DoiT and AWS have an agreed-upon payment schedule that differs from what you see in the AWS console. Don't be concerned, as the invoice will be paid and the account will not be suspended.

Bear in mind that you need to take care of your AWS invoices for the period prior to you joining DoiT. If you're onboarded with DoiT, where we created a new management account for you, and invited your existing accounts to the new AWS Organization, you'll be responsible for the invoice issued by AWS up until the date you consolidated with DoiT.

General billing items

In any given month, there are different factors that will result in the cost appearing different in AWS when compared directly with DoiT:

• Bundled discount: Usage-based discount with a conditional logic associated with usage. This discount is passed onto your DoiT invoice.

• Credit: Credits are automatically applied by AWS to cover your costs associated with eligible services. These credits are passed onto your DoiT Cloud Analytics.

• Enterprise Discount Program (EDP): It's a contractual agreement which offers cross-service discount in return for an annual or multi-year commitment. You're rewarded with higher discounts for additional contract years you commit to. EDP is mainly targeted to customers with a high annual usage spend.

• Fee: Enterprise Discount Program on upfront charges and exchange charges.

• Out-of-Cycle Billing (OCB): Separate line items for one-time purchases, such as the Registrar fee, or APN fees billed upfront or following a private offer schedule.

• Private Rate Card discount or Private Pricing Agreement (PPA): An agreement which provides discounted prices for specific services.

• Recurring reservation fees: Monthly fee for Reserved Instances that are purchased partially upfront or no upfront.

• Refund: Refund applied to the invoice.

• Reservation applied usage: Covered usage by Reserved Instances. It's always represented as 0, since AWS represents the covered cost as 0.

• Solution Provider Program (SPP) discounts: These discounts are given to DoiT by AWS, as we're an authorized reseller of their services.

• Support fees: If you have a paid support level, the costs may differ from AWS to DoiT. If you use Flexsave, in AWS, these fees are calculated factoring in a Saving Plans 3-year discount rate, whereas in DoiT, they're based on a Saving Plans 1-year discount rate.

• Usage: On-Demand charges.

• Tax: If applicable. It's not passed from AWS, and it's always recalculated in the DoiT console based on your billing profile.

Flexsave billing items

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This information is only relevant if you have a dedicated resold account.

If you benefit from Flexsave savings, you must be familiar with these billing items:

• Flexsave adjustment: Financial adjustment based on the difference in costs between one-year and three-year commitments.

• Flexsave charges: The charge for the Flexsave service.

• Flexsave covered usage: On-Demand costs covered by Flexsave.

• Flexsave negation: Savings provided by Flexsave.

Savings Plans billing items

Savings Plans can differ between DoiT and AWS, so the billing amount you see in AWS may be different than what you see in DoiT.

AWS Savings Plans items

• Savings Plans (SP) covered usage: On-Demand costs covered by DoiT Savings Plans. If you've purchased SPs directly from AWS, this is a combination of eligible On-Demand costs covered by both your own Saving Plans, and DoiT Saving Plans.

• Savings Plans (SP) negation: Savings provided by DoiT Savings Plans. If you've purchased SPs directly from AWS, this is a combination of eligible savings from both your own Saving Plans, and DoiT Saving Plans.

• Savings Plans (SP) recurring fees: Recurring charges related to DoiT Savings Plans. If you've purchased SPs directly from AWS, these fees are a combination of both DoiT and AWS SPs. DoiT Saving plans recurring fees are removed when we pull your monthly details through the Monthly Cost and Usage Report (CUR).

• Savings Plan (SP) upfront fee: This is is added to your bill when you purchase an All Upfront or Partial Upfront Savings Plan.

DoiT Savings Plans items

• Savings Plans (SP) covered usage: On-Demand costs covered by your own Savings Plans.

• Savings Plans (SP) negation: Savings provided by your own Savings Plans.

• Savings Plans (SP) recurring fees: Recurring charges related to your own Savings Plans.