Runcost

Pricing

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

FOCUS column

PricingQuantity

The quantity of the pricing unit the charge was priced on, which can differ from the consumed quantity when the provider prices in a different unit or in tiers. It is the number the unit price is multiplied by, so PricingQuantity times the unit price gives the cost at that price level.

Example

Storage consumed as 1,536 gigabyte-hours may be priced as 2.1 gigabyte-months, with 2.1 in PricingQuantity and the hours in ConsumedQuantity.

Where it comes from, per export

The export column that feeds PricingQuantity 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
PricingQuantity
cast to decimal
Azure Cost Management, FOCUS export
PricingQuantity
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 validates that quantity times unit price agrees with the cost columns during ingestion, and reports the mismatch when a provider’s export disagrees with itself.

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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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