meterUsage

API to emit metering records. For identical requests, the API is idempotent and returns the metering record ID. This is used for metering flexible consumption pricing (FCP) Amazon Machine Images (AMI) and container products.

MeterUsage is authenticated on the buyer's Amazon Web Services account using credentials from the Amazon EC2 instance, Amazon ECS task, or Amazon EKS pod.

MeterUsage can optionally include multiple usage allocations, to provide customers with usage data split into buckets by tags that you define (or allow the customer to define).

Submit usage records to report events from the previous hour. If you submit records that are greater than six hours after events occur, the records won’t be accepted. The timestamp in your request determines when an event is recorded. You can only report usage once per hour for each dimension. For AMI-based products, this is per dimension and per EC2 instance. For container products, this is per dimension and per ECS task or EKS pod. You can’t modify values after they’re recorded. If you report usage before the current hour ends, you will be unable to report additional usage until the next hour begins.

For Amazon Web Services Regions that support MeterUsage, see MeterUsage Region support for Amazon EC2 and MeterUsage Region support for Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS.