MarketplaceMetering#
Client#
- class MarketplaceMetering.Client#
A low-level client representing AWSMarketplace Metering
This reference provides descriptions of the low-level Marketplace Metering Service API.
Amazon Web Services Marketplace sellers can use this API to submit usage data for custom usage dimensions.
For information about the permissions that you need to use this API, see Amazon Web Services Marketplace metering and entitlement API permissions in the Amazon Web Services Marketplace Seller Guide.
Submitting metering records
MeterUsage
Submits the metering record for an Amazon Web Services Marketplace product.
Called from: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance or a container running on either Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) or Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Supported product types: Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) and containers
Vendor-metered tagging: Supported allocation tagging
BatchMeterUsage
Submits the metering record for a set of customers.
BatchMeterUsage
API calls are captured by CloudTrail. You can use CloudTrail to verify that the software as a subscription (SaaS) metering records that you sent are accurate by searching for records with theeventName
ofBatchMeterUsage
. You can also use CloudTrail to audit records over time. For more information, see the CloudTrail User Guide.Called from: SaaS applications
Supported product type: SaaS
Vendor-metered tagging: Supports allocation tagging
Accepting new customers
ResolveCustomer
Resolves the registration token that the buyer submits through the browser during the registration process. Obtains a
CustomerIdentifier
along with theCustomerAWSAccountId
andProductCode
.Called from: SaaS application during the registration process
Supported product type: SaaS
Vendor-metered tagging: Not applicable
Entitlement and metering for paid container products
RegisteredUsage
Provides software entitlement and metering. Paid container software products sold through Amazon Web Services Marketplace must integrate with the Marketplace Metering Service and call the
RegisterUsage
operation. Free and Bring Your Own License model (BYOL) products for Amazon ECS or Amazon EKS aren’t required to callRegisterUsage
. However, you can do so if you want to receive usage data in your seller reports. For more information about using theRegisterUsage
operation, see Container-based products.Called from: Paid container software products
Supported product type: Containers
Vendor-metered tagging: Not applicable
Entitlement custom metering for container products
MeterUsage API is available in GovCloud Regions but only supports AMI FCP products in GovCloud Regions. Flexible Consumption Pricing (FCP) Container products aren’t supported in GovCloud Regions: us-gov-west-1 and us-gov-east-1. For more information, see Container-based products.
Custom metering for container products are called using the MeterUsage API. The API is used for FCP AMI and FCP Container product metering.
Custom metering for Amazon EKS is available in 17 Amazon Web Services Regions
The metering service supports Amazon ECS and EKS for Flexible Consumption Pricing (FCP) products using MeterUsage API. Amazon ECS is supported in all Amazon Web Services Regions that MeterUsage API is available except for GovCloud.
Amazon EKS is supported in the following: us-east-1, us-east-2, us-west-1, us-west-2, eu-west-1, eu-central-1, eu-west-2, eu-west-3, eu-north-1, ap-east-1, ap-southeast-1, ap-northeast-1, ap-southeast-2, ap-northeast-2, ap-south-1, ca-central-1, sa-east-1.
Note
For questions about adding Amazon Web Services Regions for metering, contact Amazon Web Services Marketplace Seller Operations.
client = session.create_client('meteringmarketplace')
These are the available methods:
Client Exceptions#
Client exceptions are available on a client instance via the exceptions
property. For more detailed instructions and examples on the exact usage of client exceptions, see the error handling user guide.
The available client exceptions are:
- CustomerNotEntitledException
- DisabledApiException
- DuplicateRequestException
- ExpiredTokenException
- InternalServiceErrorException
- InvalidCustomerIdentifierException
- InvalidEndpointRegionException
- InvalidProductCodeException
- InvalidPublicKeyVersionException
- InvalidRegionException
- InvalidTagException
- InvalidTokenException
- InvalidUsageAllocationsException
- InvalidUsageDimensionException
- PlatformNotSupportedException
- ThrottlingException
- TimestampOutOfBoundsException