AWS re:Invent 2025 - Why Usage-Based Billing Must Be Treated as Infrastructure (AIM109)
Monetization is now an infrastructure challenge. With usage-based, outcome-based, and hybrid pricing models, billing can’t go down—even if your product does. It underpins revenue, customer experience, and financial reporting. At scale, this means processing millions of interdependent events in real time with four-nines reliability, while ensuring changes cascade across pricing, credits, dashboards, and ledgers.