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Commitment discounts

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

FOCUS column

CommitmentDiscountUnit

The unit of CommitmentDiscountQuantity: the resource unit for a usage commitment or the currency for a spend commitment. It lets the quantity be interpreted and summed correctly, since a commitment measured in hours and one measured in dollars cannot be added.

Example

A usage commitment row shows “Hours”; a spend commitment row shows “USD”.

Where it comes from, per export

The export column that feeds CommitmentDiscountUnit 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
CommitmentDiscountUnit
as is
Azure Cost Management, FOCUS export
CommitmentDiscountUnit
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 groups commitment quantities by unit before computing utilization, and labels the figure on the commitment schedule.

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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