# Centralized Billing and Cost savings

1. No credit card required, all billing is handled through Workday
1. Software Licenses
    * Many of Mines institutional software licenses can be made available in AWS
    * Mines Accounts will have access to higher tier instance types that aren't available in personal accounts due to
      account limits or pre-negociated licenses
1. Technical Support and Training
    * Mines IT staff Are be available to help trouble shoot issues on Mines accounts

1. Security and Regulatory Compliance
    * Mines AWS accounts will adhere to Mines security policies and data security standards
    * Identity Management integrated with existing Mines systems, no need to worry about user name, passwords and other
      Mines users can be granted access

1. Collaboration and Resource Sharing
    * By pooling our accounts, we will be able to get discounts on reserved instances from AWS
    * Mines AWS accounts will allow users to use other Mines systems and data
    * With AWS organizations, users can collaborate on shared resources while maintaining separate billing and
      permissions within Mines overall AWS account