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Use Cases

Use Cases

Allocate multi-currency charges per application Analyze cost by participating entities Analyze effective cost by pricing currency Analyze purchase of virtual currency Analyze tag coverage Analyze total cost by allocated resource Determine target of virtual currency usage Identify resources with shared cost allocation Identify sources of billed cost Report corrections by subaccount for a previously invoiced billing period Track marketplace purchases across providers Verify accuracy of provider invoices aka invoice reconciliation

Analyze costs by service name Analyze service costs by region Compare resource usage month over month Identify anomalous daily spending by subaccount Identify anomalous daily spending by subaccount and region Identify anomalous daily spending by subaccount, region, and service Identify unused capacity reservations

Calculate consumption of virtual currency within a billing period Compare billed cost per subaccount to budget Track contract commitment burn-down over time Update budgets for each application Update budgets with billed costs

Verify accuracy of service provider invoices Verify accuracy of services charges across service providers Verify discount accuracy for a previously invoiced billing period (corrections excluded)

Calculate average rate of a component resource Forecast amortized costs month over month based on historical trends Forecast cashflow month over month based on historical trends by service Get historical usage and rates to enable cost forecasting

Report subaccounts by region

Reconcile Cost and Usage to Invoice Detail by Invoice ID Reconcile Multi-Currency Settlement using Lineage IDs Understand the billing account or sub account entity Validate Tax Variance

Determine contracted savings by virtual currency Join contract commitment details with usage charges Quantify usage of a component resource Report effective cost of compute

Calculate Commitment Discount Coverage Rate with Eligibility-Adjusted Denominator Commitment Discount Effective Cost Breakdown Compare Commitment Opportunities Across Providers (Cross-Provider with SaaS) Discount Effectiveness by Service Identify Eligible Capacity Reservation Spend Identify Eligible Uncovered Spend by Program Type Identify unused commitments Report commitment discount purchases

Analyze capacity reservations on compute costs Analyze marketplace vendors costs Analyze resource costs by SKU Analyze service costs by subaccount Analyze service costs month over month Analyze the different metered costs for a particular SKU Calculate unit economics Cash vs. Accrual Comparison by Billing Period Determine Effective Savings Rate Determine Effective Savings Rate by Service Effective Cost by Service and Region Report application cost month over month Report corrections for a previously invoiced billing period Report costs by service category Report costs by service category and subcategory Report on initial contract commitments Report service costs by providers subaccount Report spending across billing periods for a service provider by service category

Analyze credit memos

Analyze cost per compute service for a subaccount Analyze costs by availability zone for a subaccount Analyze costs of components of a resource
Column Library
Specification

Specification

Working Group

1 Introduction

2 Supported Features

2.1 Account Structures 2.2 Billed Cost and Invoice Alignment 2.3 Charge Categorization 2.4 Commit Usage and Under Usage 2.5 Contract Commitments 2.6 Cost and Usage Attribution 2.7 Cost Comparison 2.8 Custom Columns 2.9 Data Generator-Calculated Split Cost Allocation 2.10 Data Granularity 2.11 Dataset Instance Metadata 2.12 Effective Cost Analysis 2.13 Location 2.14 Marketplace Purchases 2.15 Recency Metadata 2.16 Resource Usage 2.17 Schema Metadata 2.18 Service Provider Services 2.19 Service Categorization 2.20 Participating Entity Identification 2.21 Verification, Comparison, and Fluctuation Tracking of Unit Prices

3 Datasets

3.1 Cost and Usage

3.1.1 Allocated Method ID 3.1.2 Allocated Method Details 3.1.3 Allocated Resource ID 3.1.4 Allocated Resource Name 3.1.5 Allocated Tags 3.1.6 Availability Zone 3.1.7 Billed Cost 3.1.8 Billing Account ID 3.1.9 Billing Account Name 3.1.10 Billing Account Type 3.1.11 Billing Currency 3.1.12 Billing Period End 3.1.13 Billing Period Start 3.1.14 Capacity Reservation ID 3.1.15 Capacity Reservation Status 3.1.16 Charge Category 3.1.17 Charge Class 3.1.18 Charge Description 3.1.19 Charge Frequency 3.1.20 Charge Period End 3.1.21 Charge Period Start 3.1.22 Commitment Discount Category 3.1.23 Commitment Discount ID 3.1.24 Commitment Discount Name 3.1.25 Commitment Discount Quantity 3.1.26 Commitment Discount Status 3.1.27 Commitment Discount Type 3.1.28 Commitment Discount Unit 3.1.29 Consumed Quantity 3.1.30 Consumed Unit 3.1.31 Contract Applied 3.1.32 Contracted Cost 3.1.33 Contracted Unit Price 3.1.34 Effective Cost 3.1.35 Host Provider Name 3.1.36 Invoice ID 3.1.37 Invoice Issuer Name 3.1.38 List Cost 3.1.39 List Unit Price 3.1.40 Pricing Category 3.1.41 Pricing Currency 3.1.42 Pricing Currency Contracted Unit Price 3.1.43 Pricing Currency Effective Cost 3.1.44 Pricing Currency List Unit Price 3.1.45 Pricing Quantity 3.1.46 Pricing Unit 3.1.47 Provider - DEPRECATED 3.1.48 Publisher - DEPRECATED 3.1.49 Region ID 3.1.50 Region Name 3.1.51 Resource ID 3.1.52 Resource Name 3.1.53 Resource Type 3.1.54 Service Provider Name 3.1.55 Service Category 3.1.56 Service Name 3.1.57 Service Subcategory 3.1.58 SKU ID 3.1.59 SKU Meter 3.1.60 SKU Price Details 3.1.61 SKU Price ID 3.1.62 Sub Account ID 3.1.63 Sub Account Name 3.1.64 Sub Account Type 3.1.65 Tags

3.2 Contract Commitment

3.2.1 Billing Currency 3.2.2 Contract Commitment Cost 3.2.3 Contract Commitment ID 3.2.4 Contract Commitment Category 3.2.5 Contract Commitment Description 3.2.6 Contract Commitment Period End 3.2.7 Contract Commitment Period Start 3.2.8 Contract Commitment Quantity 3.2.9 Contract Commitment Type 3.2.10 Contract Commitment Unit 3.2.11 Contract ID 3.2.12 Contract Period End 3.2.13 Contract Period Start

4 Attributes

4.1 Column Handling 4.2 Currency Format 4.3 Data Generator-Calculated Split Cost Allocation Handling 4.4 Date/Time Format 4.5 Discount Handling 4.6 JSON Object Format 4.7 Invoice Handling 4.8 Key-Value Format 4.9 Null Handling 4.10 Numeric Format 4.11 String Handling 4.12 Unit Format

5 Metadata

5.1 Data Generator 5.2 Dataset Instance 5.3 Recency 5.4 Schema

6 Use Case Library

7 Glossary

8 Appendix

8.1 Commitment Discounts 8.2 Examples: Commitment Discount Flexibility 8.3 Examples: Metadata 8.4 Examples: Participating Entity Identification 8.5 Examples: SaaS 8.6 Grouping Constructs for Resources or Services

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Tools & Assets
Tools & Assets
- Tools
  
  MCP Server
  
  FOCUS Validator
  
  Query Sandbox
- Assets
  
  Supporting assets

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Working Group

1 Introduction

2 Supported Features

2.1 Account Structures 2.2 Billed Cost and Invoice Alignment 2.3 Charge Categorization 2.4 Commit Usage and Under Usage 2.5 Contract Commitments 2.6 Cost and Usage Attribution 2.7 Cost Comparison 2.8 Custom Columns 2.9 Data Generator-Calculated Split Cost Allocation 2.10 Data Granularity 2.11 Dataset Instance Metadata 2.12 Effective Cost Analysis 2.13 Location 2.14 Marketplace Purchases 2.15 Recency Metadata 2.16 Resource Usage 2.17 Schema Metadata 2.18 Service Provider Services 2.19 Service Categorization 2.20 Participating Entity Identification 2.21 Verification, Comparison, and Fluctuation Tracking of Unit Prices

3 Datasets

3.1 Cost and Usage

3.1.1 Allocated Method ID 3.1.2 Allocated Method Details 3.1.3 Allocated Resource ID 3.1.4 Allocated Resource Name 3.1.5 Allocated Tags 3.1.6 Availability Zone 3.1.7 Billed Cost 3.1.8 Billing Account ID 3.1.9 Billing Account Name 3.1.10 Billing Account Type 3.1.11 Billing Currency 3.1.12 Billing Period End 3.1.13 Billing Period Start 3.1.14 Capacity Reservation ID 3.1.15 Capacity Reservation Status 3.1.16 Charge Category 3.1.17 Charge Class 3.1.18 Charge Description 3.1.19 Charge Frequency 3.1.20 Charge Period End 3.1.21 Charge Period Start 3.1.22 Commitment Discount Category 3.1.23 Commitment Discount ID 3.1.24 Commitment Discount Name 3.1.25 Commitment Discount Quantity 3.1.26 Commitment Discount Status 3.1.27 Commitment Discount Type 3.1.28 Commitment Discount Unit 3.1.29 Consumed Quantity 3.1.30 Consumed Unit 3.1.31 Contract Applied 3.1.32 Contracted Cost 3.1.33 Contracted Unit Price 3.1.34 Effective Cost 3.1.35 Host Provider Name 3.1.36 Invoice ID 3.1.37 Invoice Issuer Name 3.1.38 List Cost 3.1.39 List Unit Price 3.1.40 Pricing Category 3.1.41 Pricing Currency 3.1.42 Pricing Currency Contracted Unit Price 3.1.43 Pricing Currency Effective Cost 3.1.44 Pricing Currency List Unit Price 3.1.45 Pricing Quantity 3.1.46 Pricing Unit 3.1.47 Provider - DEPRECATED 3.1.48 Publisher - DEPRECATED 3.1.49 Region ID 3.1.50 Region Name 3.1.51 Resource ID 3.1.52 Resource Name 3.1.53 Resource Type 3.1.54 Service Provider Name 3.1.55 Service Category 3.1.56 Service Name 3.1.57 Service Subcategory 3.1.58 SKU ID 3.1.59 SKU Meter 3.1.60 SKU Price Details 3.1.61 SKU Price ID 3.1.62 Sub Account ID 3.1.63 Sub Account Name 3.1.64 Sub Account Type 3.1.65 Tags

3.2 Contract Commitment

3.2.1 Billing Currency 3.2.2 Contract Commitment Cost 3.2.3 Contract Commitment ID 3.2.4 Contract Commitment Category 3.2.5 Contract Commitment Description 3.2.6 Contract Commitment Period End 3.2.7 Contract Commitment Period Start 3.2.8 Contract Commitment Quantity 3.2.9 Contract Commitment Type 3.2.10 Contract Commitment Unit 3.2.11 Contract ID 3.2.12 Contract Period End 3.2.13 Contract Period Start

4 Attributes

4.1 Column Handling 4.2 Currency Format 4.3 Data Generator-Calculated Split Cost Allocation Handling 4.4 Date/Time Format 4.5 Discount Handling 4.6 JSON Object Format 4.7 Invoice Handling 4.8 Key-Value Format 4.9 Null Handling 4.10 Numeric Format 4.11 String Handling 4.12 Unit Format

5 Metadata

5.1 Data Generator 5.2 Dataset Instance 5.3 Recency 5.4 Schema

6 Use Case Library

7 Glossary

8 Appendix

8.1 Commitment Discounts 8.2 Examples: Commitment Discount Flexibility 8.3 Examples: Metadata 8.4 Examples: Participating Entity Identification 8.5 Examples: SaaS 8.6 Grouping Constructs for Resources or Services

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