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Azure Finops

FOCUS-aligned FinOps for Microsoft Azure: hyperscale cloud platform with pay-as-you-go consumption metering across hundreds of services, augmented by reservations, savings plans, and enterprise agreements. Microsoft is a founding member of the FinOps Foundation and a primary contributor to the FOCUS specification; Azure Cost Management + Billing exports natively conform to FOCUS 1.0/1.1.

Azure Finops is the FinOps profile for Microsoft Azure on the APIs.io network, aligned with the FinOps Foundation Framework.

It defines 6 billable meters, billed in USD/EUR/GBP/local, on a monthly cycle, and pricing category pay-as-you-go + committed use.

The profile maps 8 FOCUS columns for cost-allocation reporting.

Tagged areas include Cloud Computing, Infrastructure, Platform as a Service, FinOps, and FOCUS.

Category: Cloud Infrastructure Pricing: Pay-As-You-Go + Committed Use Billing: Monthly FOCUS v1.3
Cloud ComputingInfrastructurePlatform as a ServiceFinOpsFOCUS

Framework Alignment

Framework
FinOps Foundation Framework
Data Spec
FOCUS v1.3

Charge Categories

UsagePurchaseTaxAdjustmentRefundCredit

FOCUS Columns

BillingCurrency
USD
ChargeCategory
Usage
InvoiceIssuerName
Microsoft Corporation
PricingCategory
Pay-As-You-Go
ProviderName
Microsoft
PublisherName
Microsoft Corporation
ServiceCategory
Cloud Infrastructure
ServiceName
Microsoft Azure

Meters

compute_hours
Unit: instance-hour
Virtual machine, container, and serverless compute time
storage_capacity
Unit: GB-month
Blob, file, queue, table, and disk storage
data_transfer
Unit: GB
Egress bandwidth across regions, AZs, internet
api_transactions
Unit: transaction
Service-specific transaction count (Storage, Cosmos DB, Functions, etc.)
licenses_subscriptions
Unit: seat
Per-seat / per-month subscriptions for managed offerings
reservations_savings_plans
Unit: month
Committed-use commitments billed monthly across covered SKUs

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