FOCUS column
InvoiceIssuerName
The name of the entity that issued the invoice the charge appears on. It is usually the cloud provider, but it can be a reseller, a distributor or a managed service partner when the organization buys through one, and then it differs from the provider of the service itself.
Example
An organization buying Azure through a licensing partner sees the partner’s name here on every row, with Microsoft as the service provider.
Where it comes from, per export
The export column that feeds InvoiceIssuerName 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 | InvoiceIssuerName | as is |
| Azure Cost Management, FOCUS export | InvoiceIssuerName | as is |
| Azure Cost Details (actual cost) | Not carried | — |
| Azure Cost Details (amortized cost) | Not carried | — |
| Google Cloud detailed billing export | Not carried | — |
How Runcost uses it
Runcost reconciles to the invoice issuer’s invoice, which is what finance actually pays, rather than to the provider’s console total.
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.