1. Buy only the credit you choose
The billing page opens a Stripe-hosted prepaid checkout. Purchased credit becomes available after payment settles. The gateway does not expose Stripe credentials or card details.
2. Activate the approved managed provider
Onboarding or Providers can activate the managed Bedrock catalog with no provider key. Before publication, the release pipeline checks each model, region, catalog price, IAM scope, guardrail path, and a small paid canary request.
3. Apply a workload limit
Create the route, policy, budget, and workload key. Each managed request reserves wallet credit before it calls AWS. At a zero balance, the request stops. The only exception is a capped automatic reload that the owner has explicitly enabled.