Proposed Answer Billing API ETA

  • Saturday, February 19, 2011 1:20 AM
     
     

    When is billing API going to be available?

    And as a sub-question - when is the ability to cap Azure usage to certain amount per month will be available?

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  • Tuesday, February 22, 2011 2:53 PM
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     Proposed Answer

    There have been no announcements and I don't expect it to be soon. Yeah, I'm disappointed as well. :(

    Usage caps are possible as they do it with the 30 day passes. I'm hoping we'll see that functionality available for general usage sometime this year but haven't heard book from MSFT on it. So don't take my opinion as fact. :)

  • Tuesday, March 01, 2011 5:38 AM
     
     

    Thanks Brent,

    is there at least a way to programmatically download the Excel bill files?

  • Tuesday, March 01, 2011 1:47 PM
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    Not that I'm aware of. But that would be a nice stop-gap. I'll pass along the idea. :)
  • Tuesday, August 02, 2011 7:51 AM
     
     

    Jason,

     

    there are some 3rd party components that can take care of metering, usage and billing. Zuora is one of them and i have good experience with it!

    regards,