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    <title>topic What am I being charged for in Cloud Activation, Architecture &amp; Billing Discussions</title>
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    <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;I would like to understand what are the various charges for VMware Cloud on AWS&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2019 22:58:53 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>RobynWeeda</dc:creator>
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      <title>What am I being charged for</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Cloud-Activation-Architecture/What-am-I-being-charged-for/m-p/508606#M1</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;I would like to understand what are the various charges for VMware Cloud on AWS&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2019 22:58:53 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>RobynWeeda</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-09-12T22:58:53Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: What am I being charged for</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Cloud-Activation-Architecture/What-am-I-being-charged-for/m-p/508607#M2</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thank you for this question we have a page explaining all the charges &lt;A href="https://cloud.vmware.com/vmc-aws/pricing?utm_expid=.vfMU0JQhToeOhUjBXJ-pFg.0&amp;amp;utm_referrer="&gt;here&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2019 22:59:57 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>RobynWeeda</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-09-12T22:59:57Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: What am I being charged for</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Cloud-Activation-Architecture/What-am-I-being-charged-for/m-p/508608#M3</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;There is some incorrect information provided here.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Yes, the hosts can be added on via the GUI or the API, however there is an auto-scaling mechanism in VMware Cloud on AWS called Elastic DRS.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;By default it is turned on to scale for storage consumption but it can be enabled for compute as well:&lt;A href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-on-AWS/services/com.vmware.vmc-aws-operations/GUID-81BD6D29-EB69-4EFF-8060-71ACE4C8F51F.html" title="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-on-AWS/services/com.vmware.vmc-aws-operations/GUID-81BD6D29-EB69-4EFF-8060-71ACE4C8F51F.html"&gt; About Elastic DRS&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Regarding pricing, yes, an on-demand host will cost approximately that amount a year, however 1-year or 3-year subscriptions can be purchased with significant discounts&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="pastedImage_0.png"&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/23280iC692598E3D03A5AA/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="pastedImage_0.png" alt="pastedImage_0.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2020 15:51:31 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>AsafBlubshtein</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-09-23T15:51:31Z</dc:date>
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