Families

Families are Billing Engine’s way to group accounts and subscriptions from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud to help you organize your cloud billing data.

With families, you can:

• Group accounts to filter or group.
• Streamline creating reports in Analysis, and applying rules across accounts.
• Use rules so the accounts in the family act as if are their own bill. This allows you to refine and allocate costs as if the accounts were a true standalone cloud organization.

Once you’ve created a family, you can add or remove accounts from it. Keep in mind, accounts can only be assigned to one family at a time. You can remove an account from one family and immediately assign it to another.

You can remove a group of accounts by clicking next to a family. This does not delete the accounts themselves but removes them from the family. You can then add them to other families.

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Create a Billing Family

1. In the left main menu, click Billing Engine.

2. Select the Family tab and then click Create Family.

3. Enter a unique name for the family.

4. Click Assign Accounts, add available accounts or subscriptions, and then click Assign.

   The accounts that you include in this billing family can only be in this one billing family. An example of a family would be a project, internal business unit, or external client that uses any of these cloud services.

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5. Click Save.