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2025-08-23 - Storage, Usage, Billing
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ADI
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We're excited to announce a significant enhancement to how we manage and report on your data storage, usage, and billing. This foundational improvement addresses a long-standing challenge, providing unprecedented clarity and control.

Previously, with customer projects spanning various global regions, gathering comprehensive metrics for analysis and billing was complex due to data being spread across multiple locations. We've now successfully unified all this critical information into our central data platform.

This consolidation means we now have instant, complete visibility into your data activities. You'll benefit from more accurate insights into who accessed what, when, and the associated costs, all from a single, reliable source.

This was achieved by seamlessly integrating automated data collection processes across every customer tenancy, ensuring all usage data flows directly into our unified system.

Problem
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A feature backlogged from Day 1 due to technical challenges

Solution
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Because our customer projects run in different regions around the world, the metrics we use to analyse, report and track usage and billing aren't always in the same place. We have now combined all the data into our spanner database which gives us instant access to ... EVERYTHING ! who did what and when and how much it cost.

Leverage the Magic
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We leveraged house keeping jobs in every customer tenancy to send usage data back to our central spanner database.

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