Runcost

Accounts

Type
string
Required
Yes, on every row
Added in
FOCUS 1.0
Contract name
billing_account_name
Updated

FOCUS column

BillingAccountName

The display name of the billing account, as the provider shows it in its own console: a human-readable label for the same entity that BillingAccountId identifies. Names can change while the identifier stays fixed, so reports group by the id and show the name.

Example

An Azure billing profile named “Contoso EMEA – Production” appears here, while its GUID appears in BillingAccountId.

Where it comes from, per export

The export column that feeds BillingAccountName in each format the platform ingests, and the transform applied. A format with no row does not carry the column; the value is then absent rather than guessed.

ExportSource columnTransform
AWS Data Exports, FOCUS
BillingAccountName
as is
Azure Cost Management, FOCUS export
BillingAccountName
as is
Azure Cost Details (actual cost)
BillingAccountName
as is
Azure Cost Details (amortized cost)
BillingAccountName
as is
Google Cloud detailed billing exportNot carried

How Runcost uses it

Runcost displays the name on statements and connection screens, and keys every mapping on the id so a rename never breaks allocation.

Related columns

About this reference

Generated from the column contract and provider rules that Runcost runs, and written by Faisal Saleem, Founder. The normative definitions are in the FinOps Foundation’s FOCUS specification at focus.finops.org.

Your bills, in FOCUS, allocated to owners.

Runcost ingests AWS, Azure and Google Cloud exports into this contract and produces statements, forecasts and alerts from it.

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