FOCUS column
ConsumedUnit
The unit of ConsumedQuantity, such as hours, gigabytes, requests or tokens. Units differ by service and provider, and are not normalized across them, so the unit must be read with the quantity for any usage comparison to be valid.
Example
An object storage row carries “GB-Hours”; an API gateway row carries “Requests”; a model-inference row carries “Tokens”.
Where it comes from, per export
The export column that feeds ConsumedUnit 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.
| Export | Source column | Transform |
|---|---|---|
| AWS Data Exports, FOCUS | ConsumedUnit | as is |
| Azure Cost Management, FOCUS export | ConsumedUnit | as is |
| Azure Cost Details (actual cost) | UnitOfMeasure | as is |
| Azure Cost Details (amortized cost) | UnitOfMeasure | as is |
| Google Cloud detailed billing export | usage.unit | as is |
How Runcost uses it
Runcost groups usage by unit before comparing periods, and labels every usage figure with it in the drill-down.
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.