Runcost

Resource

Type
string, from a small set of values
Required
Yes, on every row
Added in
FOCUS 1.1
Contract name
capacity_reservation_status
Updated

FOCUS column

CapacityReservationStatus

Whether the charge represents reserved capacity that was used by a running resource or capacity that was reserved and left idle. It exists because idle reserved capacity is a real cost with no consuming resource, and it would otherwise be invisible in a resource-based view.

Example

Two rows for the same reservation show “Used” for the hours a resource ran in it and “Unused” for the hours nothing did.

Where it comes from, per export

The export column that feeds CapacityReservationStatus 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
CapacityReservationStatus
as is
Azure Cost Management, FOCUS export
CapacityReservationStatus
as is
Azure Cost Details (actual cost)Not carried
Azure Cost Details (amortized cost)Not carried
Google Cloud detailed billing exportNot carried

How Runcost uses it

Runcost flags unused reserved capacity as an anomaly class of its own, routed to the team that made the reservation.

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.

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

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