NIST SP 800-145 NISTSP145-4: Measured Service Characteristic and Billing Transparency

Verify and document that a cloud service exhibits the Measured Service characteristic per NIST SP 800-145 Section 2: cloud systems automatically control and optimise resource use by leveraging a metering capability at some level of abstraction appropriate to the type of service (for example storage, processing, bandwidth, and active user accounts). Resource usage can be monitored, controlled, and reported, providing transparency for both the provider and consumer of the utilised service. Capture the metering granularity, billing dimension list, usage reporting API or dashboard, and the dispute or reconciliation mechanism in the cloud service record.