FOCUS column
ServiceName
The provider’s own name for the service the charge belongs to, as a customer would recognize it in the console and on the invoice. It is provider-specific and not normalized; the category and subcategory columns carry the cross-provider view.
Example
Rows carry “Amazon Simple Storage Service”, “Azure Blob Storage” or “Cloud Storage”, each folding into ServiceCategory “Storage”.
Where it comes from, per export
The export column that feeds ServiceName 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 | ServiceName | as is |
| Azure Cost Management, FOCUS export | ServiceName | as is |
| Azure Cost Details (actual cost) | MeterCategory | as is |
| Azure Cost Details (amortized cost) | MeterCategory | as is |
| Google Cloud detailed billing export | service.description | as is |
How Runcost uses it
Runcost reports by service name inside a provider and by category across providers, and uses the name to derive the category where needed.
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.