Runcost

SKU

Type
string
Required
Yes, on every row
Added in
FOCUS 1.0
Contract name
sku_price_id
Updated

FOCUS column

SkuPriceId

The identifier of the specific price applied to the SKU on this row, which can vary within one SKU by pricing tier, term or agreement. Where SkuId says what was bought, SkuPriceId says at which of its prices, and the two together locate the row in the provider’s price list exactly.

Example

The same storage SKU carries different SkuPriceIds for the first 50 terabytes and for usage above it, reflecting tiered pricing.

Where it comes from, per export

The export column that feeds SkuPriceId 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
SkuPriceId
as is
Azure Cost Management, FOCUS export
SkuPriceId
as is
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 uses the price id to validate cost against the price list and to explain a cost change that came from a tier boundary rather than usage.

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.

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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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