Accounting Service#

Description: Tracks costs for services
Also known as:
Source: https://github.com/openbraininstitute/accounting-service
API: https://openbluebrain.com/api/accounting/docs
AWS Dashboard: https://us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/home?region=us-east-1#dashboards/dashboard/Accounting
AWS Cluster: https://us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com/ecs/v2/clusters/accounting_ecs_cluster/services?region=us-east-1
Maintainer(s):

Overview#

Tracks costs for services; when a service is launched it either sends a message via SQS saying it’s starting, and then when it ends or it uses an API call to do the same.
Future work: deploy multiple copies of this for HA.

Accounting Service - Main Architecture

Goals#

Be able to break down costs at the Project level, as well as the Virtual Lab level.
Be able to say 'how much credit is left, so that costs are capped to what the user has already paid for
Prior to a use of a cost incurring resource usage, the budget will be checked if there is enough money