Glossary
Your comprehensive guide to cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and platform engineering terminology.
Cloud billing is the process of tracking, calculating, and invoicing resource usage in a cloud environment, translating metered consumption of compute, storage, and network resources into charges based on the provider's pricing model.
Cloud metering is the automated measurement and recording of how much of each cloud resource you consume over time, tracking metrics such as compute hours, storage capacity, and network bandwidth.
CloudKitty is an OpenStack rating service that collects cloud resource usage metrics, applies pricing rules to that data, and produces cost information for chargeback and showback reporting.
A quota is a limit that restricts how many resources a cloud project can create or consume, preventing any single project from exhausting shared infrastructure capacity.
Usage-based billing is a pricing model where customers pay only for the cloud resources they actually consume rather than a fixed monthly fee.
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