Alibaba Cloud Billing API examples for ECS cost estimation using Python

Summary

1. Introduction
2. Use Cases
   1. Usecase: ECS Subscription cost estimation based on the csv template
   2. Usecase: ECS PayAsYouGo cost estimation based on the csv template
3. Prerequisites
   1. Setup Environment
   2. Install Python
   3. Install aliyun-python-sdk-bssopenapi on your local machine.
   4. Install beautifulSoup library for XML parsing.
4. Prepare ECS Cost Estimation CSV Templates
   1. ECS Subscription Cost Estimation csv Template
   2. ECS PayAsYouGo Cost Estimation csv Template
5. How to use Python code snippets
   1. How to estimate ECS subscription cost
   2. How to estimate ECS PayAsYouGo cost
6. Support

Introduction

This example shows how to use Alibaba Cloud Billing API using python for estimating ECS subscription or PayAsYouGo using csv template.

Use Cases

We will demonstrate 2 use cases.

Usecase: ECS Subscription cost estimation based on the csv template

This is a common use case where in there is a need to estimate Subscription cost (Monthly/Yearly) for large number of ECS based on different combinations (instance family,System Disk,Data Disk, Region, Disk type, duration(monthly, yearly) etc)

Usecase: ECS PayAsYouGo cost estimation based on the csv template

This is a common use case where in there is a need to estimate PayAsYouGo cost (Monthly/Yearly) for large number of ECS based on different combinations (instance family,System Disk,Data Disk, Region, Disk type, duration(hourly, days) etc)

Prerequisites

Setup Environment

Set up python environment on your local machine (mac).

Install Python

prompt:~$ brew install python

Install aliyun-python-sdk-bssopenapi on your local machine.

prompt:~$ python -m pip install aliyun-python-sdk-bssopenapi

Install beautifulSoup library for XML parsing.

prompt:~$ python -m pip install bs4

Prepare ECS Cost Estimation CSV Templates

This particular Python Billing programs requires input in a certain format.

ECS Subscription Cost Estimation csv Template

Please use this template to pass in as input to python program for ECS subscription cost estimate.

Template name :

ecs_subscription_cost_estimation_template.csv

Template Type :

Input File

Template Description :

ECS PayAsYouGo Cost Estimation csv Template

Please use this template to pass in as input to python program for ECS PayAsYouGo cost estimate.

Template name :

ecs_payasyougo_cost_estimation_template.csv

Template Type :

Input File

Template Description :

How to use Python code snippets

How to estimate ECS subscription cost

• Make sure you have python environment setup and templates ready as mentioned in Step3.

• Copy ecs_subscription_cost_estimation.py & ecs_subscription_cost_estimation_template.csv to a folder.

• Update the code file with your respective keys (AccessKey ID,Access Secret Key) and save it.

  

• Execute python ecs_subscription_cost_estimation.py

  

• Check the out file ecs_subscription_cost_estimation_output_xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.csv with the cost.

  

  

How to estimate ECS PayAsYouGo cost

• Make sure you have python environment setup and templates ready as mentioned in Step3.

• Copy ecs_payasyougo_cost_estimation.py & ecs_payasyougo_cost_estimation_template.csv to a folder.

• Update the code file with your respective keys (AccessKey ID,Access Secret Key) and save it.

  

• Execute python ecs_payasyougo_cost_estimation.py

  

• Check the out file ecs_payasyougo_cost_estimation_output_xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.csv

  

  

Support

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