Runcost

Costs

Type
decimal amount
Required
No; absent when the export does not state it
Added in
FOCUS 1.0
Contract name
contracted_cost
Updated

FOCUS column

ContractedCost

The cost of the row at the price the organization negotiated in its contract with the provider, before commitment discounts are applied. It sits between ListCost and EffectiveCost, and separates the value of the enterprise agreement from the value of reservations and savings plans bought under it.

Example

With a 10% enterprise discount, a $0.10 list-price hour has ContractedCost $0.09; a savings plan then brings EffectiveCost to $0.06.

Where it comes from, per export

The export column that feeds ContractedCost 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
ContractedCost
cast to decimal
Azure Cost Management, FOCUS export
ContractedCost
cast to decimal
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 reports the two savings layers separately, so procurement can see what the agreement earned and FinOps what the commitments earned.

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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