PPA, EDP, and SPP Refund Split

AWS provides PPA, EDP and SPP discounts to AWS services meeting the eligibility criteria specified in the contract. With this feature, providers can use the AWS Discount and Credit Manager to identify EDP, PPA, or SPP discounts or refunds from the AWS invoice and decide how to split them with their resellers and/or customers.

Note: The PPA/EDP refund split is not available for AWS Consolidated.

The AWS Discount and Credit Manager allows you to configure the EDP, PPA, or SPP discount percentage to be shared with the reseller and/or customer for the applicable services. In this way, you will be able to bring EDP, PPA or SPP customers to CloudBlue and rely on CloudBlue billing automation to detect the relevant services to which the discount should be applied.

This feature is available in the Refund Split tab, and it allows you to create PPA, EDP or SPP split rules with your customers or resellers by providing a split percentage to distribute the total refund amount among your resellers and customers. To learn more about how refund splits work, see the following section: Standard Discounts vs Discount Split

To create a refund split, complete the following steps:

1. Access the AWS Discount and Credit Manager by following the instructions in this section.

2. Go to the Refund Split tab and click Add Refund.

3. Enter the refund name and specify the refund split distribution percentage.

   Note: The PPA, EDP, or SPP discount must be configured as a split between provider and customer rather than as a discount on AWS services. For instance, if you wish to give customers or resellers 40% of the benefits of the PPA program, the value to be specified in this field would be 40.

4. Specify if the refund will be applied to customers or resellers. Then, specify the refund applicable period, if required. Click Next.

5. Only in the case of AWS Standalone, the Standalone Accounts step will allow you to select AWS Child Accounts (also known as member or linked accounts) as a condition. When child accounts are selected, AWS Standalone organization-level accounts (payer) cannot be selected, since they are identified by their child accounts.

6. In the Customers and Resellers steps, you can select one of the following options:

   • All: It applies the refund split rule regardless of the customer/reseller involved in the transaction.

   • Only selected: It applies the refund split only when the customers/resellers that you select in the list are involved in the transaction.

   • Exclude Selected: to apply the refund split except when the customers/resellers you select in the list are involved in the transaction.

   Note: Only for AWS Standalone, if a specific Child Standalone Account is selected in the previous step the Customers/Resellers steps will not be available.

7. In the Services step, you can either select a standard service or use auto-discovery of services based on the AWS refunds given for each service and program. If you choose Enterprise Discount Program (EDP), Private Pricing Agreement (PPA), or SPP the service will be dynamically selected based on the refund lines that match with the description patterns configured in the Config tab. This will allow for an easier maintenance of the services in the refund split rules.

   Note: The PPA/EDP refund split is not available for AWS Consolidated.

8. Add a description in the Refund Note field, if necessary.

9. Click Submit to see a summary of the new split refund rule.