Billable resources

VMware Aria Automation for Secure Clouds’s billing model is based on the usage count of cloud resources deployed. While we protect a large range of resources and workloads in your environment spanning compute, data, storage, IAM, etc., we focus our licensing model on compute and database resources as they’re the key for your infrastructure. As the platform expands to cover a greater breath of services, additional resources will be added to the licensed resources list. If you’re using any of the new services, you will see the resources and counts appear on the Usage Page beginning the first for the month at 12 AM GMT. These services will count towards your subscription.

January 1, 2022

Kubernetes Security Posture Management (KSPM) is now Generally Available. Similar with cloud, VMware Aria Automation for Secure Clouds charges based on resources monitored. For KSPM, we are counting based on Kubernetes nodes. Unlike cloud, a Kubernetes node will be counted as FOUR billable resources. Rather than having multiple billable resources in a Kubernetes cluster, the Kubernetes node is intended to represent all the resources. 

September 1, 2021

Two new billable resources were added to AWS this month.

• Amazon SageMaker Endpoint and Notebook Instance
• Athena Workgroup

Beginning this period, there will be an adjustment to DynamoDB resources. Previously, we counted all DynamoDB Tables deployed. While we are continuing to monitor all resources deployed, we will only include DynamoDB Tables with 10 or more records.

June 1, 2021

Two new billable resources were added to Azure this month.

• Azure Machine Learning Compute
• Azure HD Insight Cluster

March 1, 2021

Two new billable resources were added to GCP this month.

• GCP App Engine
• GCP GKE Cluster

February 1, 2021

VMware Aria Automation for Secure Clouds officially released GCP as generally available and so these five new billable resource were added this month.

• GCP Compute Instance
• GCP SQL Database Instance
• GCP Spanner Instance
• GCP BigTable Cluster
• GCP BigQuery Dataset

November 1, 2020

Four new billable resource was added this month.

• Azure EventHub
• Azure ScaleSet Virtual Machine
• Azure App Service Web Application
• Amazon Kinesis DataStream

October 1, 2020

One new billable resource was added this month.

• Azure Database for PostgreSQL Server

September 1, 2020

Four resources were added this month.

• Amazon ElastiCache
• Azure AKS
• Azure CosmosDB
• Azure Cache for Redis

August 1, 2020

Three resources were added this month.

• Amazon EKS
• Amazon Elasticsearch
• Amazon DynamoDB