DoiT Cloud Intelligence billing

This page explains the scope of DoiT Cloud Intelligence charges and invoices.

DCI charges

The DoiT Cloud Intelligence (DCI) Enhanced and Enterprise tiers charge the greater of a fixed Minimum service fee and a Monthly cloud spend percentage, as specified in your DCI contract.

The scope of monthly cloud spend is as below:

• It's your net spend after discounts.

• It includes charges for Flexsave and Partner-Led Support (PLS).

• It includes the total spend of all connected clouds (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), regardless of whether you purchase them directly with DoiT

• It excludes credits, marketplace subscriptions, and taxes.

• It excludes the following subscriptions: Looker, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365.

Split DCI costs

When you purchase a DCI Enhanced or Enterprise plan directly from DoiT, your invoices are issued as follows by default:

• All DCI costs are charged in a single primary DCI invoice, under the billing profile to which the contract is assigned.

• Expenditures for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud assets purchased from DoiT (via a reseller agreement) are charged in separate invoices, each under the billing profile to which the assets are assigned.

If you prefer to allocate DCI costs across billing profiles, select Split DCI costs across all billing profiles proportionally to their cloud spend in the DCI contract. In this case, your cloud asset invoices are issued as before, while your DCI invoices are issued in a more granular manner:

• DCI costs related to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud assets purchased from DoiT are split into multiple DCI invoices, one per billing profile and proportional to the cloud spend in each profile.

• DCI costs related to other charges, such as expenditures for cloud assets not purchased from DoiT, remain on the primary DCI invoice. If there are no such costs, no primary DCI invoice is issued.

Note that the Split DCI costs option is not available if you purchase a DCI plan via marketplace.

Below is an example DoiT Cloud Intelligence Enhanced plan contract, purchased directly from DoiT.

DCI billing via marketplace

If you purchase a DCI Enhanced or Enterprise plan via a marketplace, for example, via AWS Marketplace, the total cloud spend used to calculate DCI charges is based on the previous billing period. If, in a given month, the Monthly cloud spend percentage exceeds the fixed Minimum service fee, the additional cost is not charged in the same billing period but in the next one.

Below is an example that demonstrates the steps you can take to understand DCI charges.

Note

This example is provided for reference purposes. Except for the conditions explicitly stated, it does not take into account any other agreements you may have or any special scenarios that may apply.

Suppose you have an active DCI contract with a minimum service fee of US$3500 and a monthly cloud spend percentage of 3%.

1. Create a report to get the monthly spend of the three cloud providers: AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, excluding credits and marketplace spend (filter by Cost Type not equals Credit and Marketplace not equals true).

   

2. Take the spend in April as an example: the 3% cloud spend is 181,314.72 × 0.03 = 5439.44, which exceeds the minimum fee of 3500 by 1939.44.

3. Create another report for a full view over your DCI marketplace spend, grouping data by Service (Service equals DoiT Cloud Intelligence) and aws/item_desc.

   

   The AWS Marketplace software usage|us-east-1|Usage above contractual agreement item in May is the rounded value of the extra cost in April.