Hierarchical Subscription Management

摘要

Embodiments of the invention provide a subscription management service that allows an organization create unique offers, plans, and subscriptions. The resources are created under organizational subscriptions in a hierarchical manner. Each subscriber is a sub-organization of the level above it and can independently manage its services. Administrators for each subscriber at each level can define their sub-organizations. Each subscriber can install their own organizational services as long as those services are supported by the subscription. Subscribers may create their own organizational plans, such as defining how services are packaged and offered to other sub-organizations and end users. For example, a reseller may create service packages at different price levels and offer those to tenants. Administrators may create organizational subscriptions that are managed by subscribers.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
providing a datacenter management service running on a distributed computing system, the datacenter management service allowing a distributed computing system provider to manage subscriptions and resources; creating one or more provider plans for subscribing organizations to independently manage a subset of the distributed computing system by offering subscriptions and resources to datacenter tenants.