Supported by the FinOps Foundation, FOCUS™ reduces complexity for FinOps Practitioners so they can drive data-driven decision-making and maximize the business value of cloud.
FOCUS normalizes cost and usage billing data from different sources, reducing the amount of work needed to begin FinOps analysis, and enabling businesses to refocus that energy on activities that are more strategic and worthwhile.
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Focus Adoption
Before FOCUS, Billing data from cloud providers, but also PaaS and SaaS vendors, employed unique terminology, taxonomy, and metrics in their billing file (like the CUR for AWS).
This complexity slowed a FinOps Practitioner down, as they must spend valuable time ingesting and normalizing all this data before they can even begin analysis.
FOCUS 1.0 was announced in June 2024 and is now supported by all cloud providers. FOCUS 1.1 was ratified on November 2024.
FOCUS Queries
You can query the same data than with the CUR file, but you have new columns as well, such as AWS Account Name.
The FOCUS 1.0 AWS export contains the CUR formatted with FOCUS 1.0, along with five additional columns from AWS that contain proprietary billing data: x_CostCategories, x_Discount, x_Operation, x_ServiceCode, and x_UsageType.
You can retrieve the full list here: FOCUS 1.0 with AWS columns - AWS Data Exports