Why Usage-Based Billing Must Be Treated as Infrastructure

Learn why modern monetization strategies require treating billing systems as critical infrastructure in this 15-minute conference talk from AWS re:Invent 2025. Discover how usage-based, outcome-based, and hybrid pricing models create infrastructure challenges that demand four-nines reliability and real-time processing of millions of interdependent events. Explore the essential infrastructure principles—scalability, reliability, modularity, orchestration, and extensibility—needed to build billing systems that can handle true scale while ensuring seamless integration across pricing, credits, dashboards, and financial ledgers. Understand why billing system downtime is no longer acceptable even when products experience outages, given its critical role in revenue generation, customer experience, and financial reporting. Gain insights into architectural approaches for building robust billing infrastructure that supports complex pricing models and maintains operational excellence at enterprise scale.