batchmeterusage deduplication

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on this link: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/marketplace/latest/userguide/metering-for-usage.html it says:

>We deduplicate metering requests on the hour.

>Requests are deduplicated per product/customer/hour/dimension.

>You can always retry any request, but if you meter for a different quantity, the original quantity is billed.

>If you send multiple requests for the same customer/dimension/hour, the records are not aggregated.

we are implementing a consumption based pricing model in which the customer will be billed for the hourly usage of their ec2 instances. so if the customer is running lets say 3 ec2 instances we will be sending records from each instance to the metering api. is that going to run into deduplication? specifically,

>If you send multiple requests for the same customer/dimension/hour, the records are not aggregated.

how do we work around it? these are not duplicate requests. each request is for the respective ec2 instance.

Serge · Answer

Hello

I understand you are using a SaaS based charging. In this case The marketplace de-duplicates requests.
You need to consolidate this, for example in a lambda function.

If you actually are charging per EC2 instance consumption, maybe a pay as you go AMI based charging might be easier to use. The [MeterUsage](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/marketplace/latest/APIReference/API_marketplace-metering_MeterUsage.html) API is designed for AMI products on Marketplace or Container products.

Hope this helps.

batchmeterusage deduplication

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