BillingandCostManagementPricingCalculator / Client / create_bill_estimate

create_bill_estimate#

BillingandCostManagementPricingCalculator.Client.create_bill_estimate(**kwargs)#

Create a Bill estimate from a Bill scenario. In the Bill scenario you can model usage addition, usage changes, and usage removal. You can also model commitment addition and commitment removal. After all changes in a Bill scenario is made satisfactorily, you can call this API with a Bill scenario ID to generate the Bill estimate. Bill estimate calculates the pre-tax cost for your consolidated billing family, incorporating all modeled usage and commitments alongside existing usage and commitments from your most recent completed anniversary bill, with any applicable discounts applied.

Request Syntax

response = client.create_bill_estimate(
    billScenarioId='string',
    name='string',
    clientToken='string',
    tags={
        'string': 'string'
    }
)

Parameters:

billScenarioId (string) –
[REQUIRED]

The ID of the Bill Scenario for which you want to create a Bill estimate.
name (string) –
[REQUIRED]

The name of the Bill estimate that will be created. Names must be unique for an account.
clientToken (string) –
A unique, case-sensitive identifier that you provide to ensure the idempotency of the request.

This field is autopopulated if not provided.
tags (dict) –
An optional list of tags to associate with the specified BillEstimate. You can use resource tags to control access to your BillEstimate using IAM policies. Each tag consists of a key and a value, and each key must be unique for the resource. The following restrictions apply to resource tags:
- Although the maximum number of array members is 200, you can assign a maximum of 50 user-tags to one resource. The remaining are reserved for Amazon Web Services.
- The maximum length of a key is 128 characters.
- The maximum length of a value is 256 characters.
- Keys and values can only contain alphanumeric characters, spaces, and any of the following: _.:/=+@-.
- Keys and values are case sensitive.
- Keys and values are trimmed for any leading or trailing whitespaces.
- Don’t use aws: as a prefix for your keys. This prefix is reserved for Amazon Web Services.
- (string) –
  - (string) –

Return type:

dict

Returns:

Response Syntax

{
    'id': 'string',
    'name': 'string',
    'status': 'IN_PROGRESS'|'COMPLETE'|'FAILED',
    'failureMessage': 'string',
    'billInterval': {
        'start': datetime(2015, 1, 1),
        'end': datetime(2015, 1, 1)
    },
    'costSummary': {
        'totalCostDifference': {
            'historicalCost': {
                'amount': 123.0,
                'currency': 'USD'
            },
            'estimatedCost': {
                'amount': 123.0,
                'currency': 'USD'
            }
        },
        'serviceCostDifferences': {
            'string': {
                'historicalCost': {
                    'amount': 123.0,
                    'currency': 'USD'
                },
                'estimatedCost': {
                    'amount': 123.0,
                    'currency': 'USD'
                }
            }
        }
    },
    'createdAt': datetime(2015, 1, 1),
    'expiresAt': datetime(2015, 1, 1)
}

Response Structure

(dict) –
- id (string) –
  
  The unique identifier of your newly created Bill estimate.
- name (string) –
  
  The name of your newly created Bill estimate.
- status (string) –
  
  The status of your newly created Bill estimate. Bill estimate creation can take anywhere between 8 to 12 hours. The status will allow you to identify when the Bill estimate is complete or has failed.
- failureMessage (string) –
  
  This attribute provides the reason if a Bill estimate result generation fails.
- billInterval (dict) –
  
  The bill month start and end timestamp that was used to create the Bill estimate. This is set to the last complete anniversary bill month start and end timestamp.
  - start (datetime) –
    
    The start date and time of the interval.
  - end (datetime) –
    
    The end date and time of the interval.
- costSummary (dict) –
  
  Returns summary-level cost information once a Bill estimate is successfully generated. This summary includes: 1) the total cost difference, showing the pre-tax cost change for the consolidated billing family between the completed anniversary bill and the estimated bill, and 2) total cost differences per service, detailing the pre-tax cost of each service, comparing the completed anniversary bill to the estimated bill on a per-service basis.
  - totalCostDifference (dict) –
    
    The total difference in cost between the estimated and historical costs.
    - historicalCost (dict) –
      
      The historical cost amount.
      - amount (float) –
        
        The numeric value of the cost.
      - currency (string) –
        
        The currency code for the cost amount.
    - estimatedCost (dict) –
      
      The estimated cost amount.
      - amount (float) –
        
        The numeric value of the cost.
      - currency (string) –
        
        The currency code for the cost amount.
  - serviceCostDifferences (dict) –
    
    A breakdown of cost differences by Amazon Web Services service.
    - (string) –
      - (dict) –
        
        Represents the difference between historical and estimated costs.
        
        historicalCost (dict) –
        
        The historical cost amount.
        
        amount (float) –
        
        The numeric value of the cost.
        
        currency (string) –
        
        The currency code for the cost amount.
        
        estimatedCost (dict) –
        
        The estimated cost amount.
        
        amount (float) –
        
        The numeric value of the cost.
        
        currency (string) –
        
        The currency code for the cost amount.
- createdAt (datetime) –
  
  The timestamp of when the Bill estimate create process was started (not when it successfully completed or failed).
- expiresAt (datetime) –
  
  The timestamp of when the Bill estimate will expire. A Bill estimate becomes inaccessible after expiration.

Exceptions

BillingandCostManagementPricingCalculator.Client.exceptions.ConflictException
BillingandCostManagementPricingCalculator.Client.exceptions.ValidationException
BillingandCostManagementPricingCalculator.Client.exceptions.DataUnavailableException
BillingandCostManagementPricingCalculator.Client.exceptions.InternalServerException
BillingandCostManagementPricingCalculator.Client.exceptions.ResourceNotFoundException
BillingandCostManagementPricingCalculator.Client.exceptions.AccessDeniedException
BillingandCostManagementPricingCalculator.Client.exceptions.ThrottlingException