# Bad Influence story: Amazon adds usage-based metering for SageMaker AI bidirectional streaming inference

Active · 1 article · 1 source · First reported 11-11 10:10. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/fded379e-0a47-4e4f-8226-1824b368ee29

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Latest update (11-11 10:10): Amazon adds usage-based metering for SageMaker AI bidirectional streaming

Overview: Amazon announces usage-based metering for Amazon SageMaker AI bidirectional streaming inference, so model providers can report actual usage for the AWS Marketplace software charge. Metering runs over a companion WebSocket, with each record reporting ConsumedUnits under the inference.count dimension. Amazon SageMaker AI endpoint infrastructure charges still apply. The metadata stream has a rate quota of one message per second per connection, with a maximum message size of 512 bytes.

Deepgram is the launch partner, bringing usage-based Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech billing to AWS Marketplace. Model providers choose hourly or per-inference pricing when they create a listing, because a released listing cannot be switched between the two.

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1. 11-11 10:10 · AWS Machine Learning Blog (from the company) · [Amazon adds usage-based metering for SageMaker AI bidirectional streaming](https://badinfluence.news/items/kxlk862gxurp7e1r0mfcm379b)
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