[ aws . meteringmarketplace ]
Paid container software products sold through AWS Marketplace must integrate with the AWS Marketplace Metering Service and call the RegisterUsage
operation for software entitlement and metering. Free and BYOL products for Amazon ECS or Amazon EKS aren’t required to call RegisterUsage
, but you may choose to do so if you would like to receive usage data in your seller reports. The sections below explain the behavior of RegisterUsage
. RegisterUsage
performs two primary functions: metering and entitlement.
Entitlement : RegisterUsage
allows you to verify that the customer running your paid software is subscribed to your product on AWS Marketplace, enabling you to guard against unauthorized use. Your container image that integrates with RegisterUsage
is only required to guard against unauthorized use at container startup, as such a CustomerNotSubscribedException
or PlatformNotSupportedException
will only be thrown on the initial call to RegisterUsage
. Subsequent calls from the same Amazon ECS task instance (e.g. task-id) or Amazon EKS pod will not throw a CustomerNotSubscribedException
, even if the customer unsubscribes while the Amazon ECS task or Amazon EKS pod is still running.
Metering : RegisterUsage
meters software use per ECS task, per hour, or per pod for Amazon EKS with usage prorated to the second. A minimum of 1 minute of usage applies to tasks that are short lived. For example, if a customer has a 10 node Amazon ECS or Amazon EKS cluster and a service configured as a Daemon Set, then Amazon ECS or Amazon EKS will launch a task on all 10 cluster nodes and the customer will be charged: (10 * hourly_rate). Metering for software use is automatically handled by the AWS Marketplace Metering Control Plane – your software is not required to perform any metering specific actions, other than call RegisterUsage
once for metering of software use to commence. The AWS Marketplace Metering Control Plane will also continue to bill customers for running ECS tasks and Amazon EKS pods, regardless of the customers subscription state, removing the need for your software to perform entitlement checks at runtime.
See also: AWS API Documentation
See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.
register-usage
--product-code <value>
--public-key-version <value>
[--nonce <value>]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]
--product-code
(string)
Product code is used to uniquely identify a product in AWS Marketplace. The product code should be the same as the one used during the publishing of a new product.
--public-key-version
(integer)
Public Key Version provided by AWS Marketplace
--nonce
(string)
(Optional) To scope down the registration to a specific running software instance and guard against replay attacks.
--cli-input-json
| --cli-input-yaml
(string)
Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton
. If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with --cli-input-yaml
.
--generate-cli-skeleton
(string)
Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input
, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json
. Similarly, if provided yaml-input
it will print a sample input YAML that can be used with --cli-input-yaml
. If provided with the value output
, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command.
See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.
PublicKeyRotationTimestamp -> (timestamp)
(Optional) Only included when public key version has expired
Signature -> (string)
JWT Token