FOCUS column
PublisherName
The name of the entity that produced the product or service being charged for, which for marketplace purchases is the software vendor and for native services is the provider itself. It identifies who made the thing, as distinct from who provided, hosted or invoiced it.
Example
A marketplace row for a monitoring agent carries the monitoring vendor here even though the cloud provider invoiced it.
Where it comes from, per export
The export column that feeds PublisherName 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 | PublisherName | as is |
| Azure Cost Management, FOCUS export | PublisherName | as is |
| Azure Cost Details (actual cost) | PublisherName | as is |
| Azure Cost Details (amortized cost) | PublisherName | as is |
| Google Cloud detailed billing export | Not carried | — |
How Runcost uses it
Runcost groups third-party spend by publisher so a software vendor’s total across accounts and clouds is one figure.
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.