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Cost and Usage Types

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When interacting with the Finout MegaBill, whether you're creating a new , building a , or using other system features, you can select from various cost and usage types, each representing a different method of accounting for your cloud service charges. This provides detailed insights into your financial data.

Finout adopts AWS’s cost dataset terminology as a standard, ensuring consistency in cost language across all providers and services. The provides a clear representation of this cross-platform cost terminology alignment in Finout.

What is a Cost Type?

A cost type indicates how costs are calculated and presented for each cloud service based on the amount of resources used. The default cost setting in Finout is the net amortized cost. If you need to change this default setting, navigate to Settings > Advanced Settings to select a different cost type.

Cost Type Definitions

  • Unblended Cost- This is the actual cost as detailed on your invoice, including charges for resources consumed and any upfront costs associated with Reserved Instances or pre-paid services. It reflects the direct expenses recorded and paid by your finance department, ensuring that the charges on the invoice match the actual payments made. Understanding Unblended Costs is essential for accurate financial accounting.

  • Net Unblended Cost- The Net Unblended Cost reflects the costs after all applicable discounts have been directly applied to the service. Unlike the standard Unblended Cost, where discounts are usually itemized separately on different lines of the invoice, showing the "regular" costs of services, the Net Unblended Cost integrates these discounts directly into the service costs themselves.

  • Amortized Cost- Amortized costs distribute the expenses of commitment payments across the duration of the Commitment Plan (SP, RI), matching costs with the actual service usage. This represents the usage costs of your Committed Plans. In contrast, Unblended Cost accounts for expenses as they occur.

  • Net Amortized Cost- This cost type represents the total expenses after applying all relevant discounts to the amortized costs.

  • Blended Cost- Blended rates average the costs of Reserved Instances and On-Demand Instances across all accounts. The total cost is calculated by dividing the total cost of services by the amount of data stored or the service usage, excluding monthly CSP/RI fees or upfront RI fees.

  • - This cost type eliminates the randomness often seen in AWS's default cost allocation by ensuring discounts are applied fairly across all relevant resources according to actual usage and eligible commitments. This structured approach resolves misaligned costs and inaccurate showback reports, offering a logical and equitable way to allocate savings in environments with multiple teams, regions, and services. Contact Finout support at support@finout.io to enable this feature.

  • Net FairShare Cost - The AWS refund is factored into the cost of each included service, with the FairShare formula applied afterward. Conversely, for FairShare costs, the refund (e.g., PrivateRateDiscount) is handled as a separate billing line and excluded from the formula. Contact Finout support at support@finout.io to enable this feature.

  • : List Cost reflects public cloud pricing, showing what you would pay without discounts, commitments, or Enterprise Discount Plans. It provides a clear, unbiased view of your cloud spend, making cost analysis easier.

Cost Type Mapping Across Providers

Finout standardizes cost calculations across cloud providers and services, ensuring a consistent and accurate view of spending. The table below outlines how Finout's cost types align with different providers.

AWS

Azure

GCP

Snowflake

Datadog

Confluent

OCI

Unblended

Unblended

Actual

Cost

Cost

Cost

Amount

Cost / MyCost

Net Unblended

Net Unblended

Actual

Cost

Cost

Cost

Amount

Cost / MyCost

Amortized

Amortized

Amortized

Cost

Cost

Finout’s Amortization Calculation

Amount

Cost / MyCost

Net Amortized

Net Amortized

Amortized

Cost

Cost

Finout’s Amortization Calculation

Amount

Cost / MyCost

Blended

Blended

Amortized

Cost

Cost

Cost

Amount

Cost / MyCost

List Cost

Public Pricing

Not Available

Public Pricing

Not Available

Not Available

Not Available

Not Available

FairShare Cost

Finout FairShare Calculation

Not Available

Not Available

Not Available

Not Available

Not Available

Not Available

Net FairShare Cost

Finout Net FairShare Calculation

Not Available

Not Available

Not Available

Not Available

Not Available

Not Available

AWS References

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws-cloud-financial-management/understanding-your-aws-cost-datasets-a-cheat-sheet/
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/latest/userguide/ce-advanced.html
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/con-bill-blended-rates.html#Blended_S3_Stand_Storage
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