BUDGET MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONALITY WITHIN A CLOUD SERVICE BROKERAGE PLATFORM

摘要

A method is performed by a computer configured to facilitate brokering of cloud services. The method includes a plurality of operations. An operation of receiving a request for instantiating an instance of a cloud service budget for a customer is performed. An operation of receiving budget configuration information is performed after receiving the request for instantiating the instance of the budget. The budget configuration information specifies a cloud service budget threshold. An operation of determining a budgetary impact of the cloud service order is performed. An operation of receiving information defining a price of a cloud service order subject to the cloud service budget is performed. In response to the budgetary impact indicating that a price of the cloud order will cause a cloud service billing amount for the customer to exceed the budget threshold, an operation of implementing at least one budgetary action associated with the budgetary impact determination.

主权项

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having tangibly embodied thereon and accessible therefrom instructions interpretable by at least one data processing device, the instructions are configured for causing the at least one data processing device to perform a method enabling brokering of cloud services, the method comprising:
instantiating an instance of a cloud service budget for a customer, wherein instantiating the cloud service budget includes receiving budget configuration information, and wherein the budget configuration information specifies a cloud service budget threshold; generating a cloud service order subject to the cloud service budget; determining a budgetary impact of the cloud service order; and implementing at least one budgetary action in response to the budgetary impact indicating that a price of the cloud order will cause a cloud service billing amount for the customer to exceed the budget threshold.