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Commitment discounts

Type
string, from a small set of values
Required
Yes, on every row
Added in
FOCUS 1.0
Contract name
commitment_discount_status
Updated

FOCUS column

CommitmentDiscountStatus

For rows that relate to a commitment, whether the committed amount was Used by matching usage or left Unused in the charge period. Unused commitment is a cost with no consuming resource, and this column is how it is identified rather than lost among usage rows.

Example

A reservation with 24 committed hours and 20 hours of matching usage in a day yields rows marked Used for 20 and Unused for 4.

Where it comes from, per export

The export column that feeds CommitmentDiscountStatus 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
CommitmentDiscountStatus
as is
Azure Cost Management, FOCUS export
CommitmentDiscountStatus
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 carries Unused commitment as a central line reported to procurement, never spread across consumers who did not choose it.

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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