AWS Billing Conductor
Custom internal billing
Creates pro forma bills using your own price list (adding markups, discounts, custom fees) for each group of accounts, for resellers or internal chargeback, without affecting the actual AWS bill.
- Cost$$ Medium
- Difficulty●●●●●
- Costs money when idle?Yes
- Serverless
Think of it asLike a dealer who buys goods at wholesale prices and then prints separate retail invoices for each customer.
When to use it
✓ Use it when
You are an AWS reseller partner, or a company that needs to show each unit its costs at internal prices.
✗ Avoid it when
Only need to allocate costs by tag → Cost Explorer / Cost and Usage Report.
Common uses
- Partners pricing resale with markup
- Chargeback to subsidiaries
- Hide centralized discounts from internal teams
What does it cost?
- Pricing model: Billed per account assigned to a billing group each month.