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STANDARDIZE YOUR CLOUD BILLING DATA WITH THE NEW FOCUS BIGQUERY VIEW

January 17, 2024
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RUPA PATEL

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Businesses today often rely on multiple cloud providers, making it crucial to
have a unified view of their cloud spend. This is where the FinOps Open Cost and
Usage Specification (FOCUS) comes in. And today, we’re excited to announce a new
BigQuery view that leverages the recent FOCUS (Preview) to help simplify cloud
cost management across clouds.


WHAT IS FOCUS?

The FinOps Cost and Usage Specification aims to deliver consistency and
standardization across cloud billing data, by unifying cloud and usage data into
one common data schema. Before FOCUS, there was no industry-standard way to
normalize key cloud cost and usage measures across multiple cloud service
providers (CSPs), making it challenging to understand how billing costs,
credits, usage, and metrics map from one cloud provider to another (see FinOps
FAQs for more details).

FOCUS helps FinOps practitioners perform fundamental FinOps capabilities using a
generic set of instructions and unified schema, regardless of the origin of the
dataset. FOCUS is a living, breathing specification that is constantly being
iterated on and improved by the Working Group, which consists of FinOps
practitioners, CSP leaders, Software as a Service (SaaS) providers, and more.
The FOCUS specification v1.0 Preview was launched in November 2023, paving the
way for more efficient and transparent cloud cost management. If you’d like to
read more or join the Working Group, here is a link to the FOCUS website.


INTRODUCING A BIGQUERY VIEW FOR FOCUS V1.0 PREVIEW

Historically, we’ve offered three ways to export cost and usage-related Cloud
Billing data to BigQuery: Standard Billing Export, Detailed Billing Export
(resource-level data and price fields to join with Price Export table), and
Price Export. Today, we are introducing a new BigQuery view that transforms this
data so that it aligns with the data attributes and metrics defined in the FOCUS
v1.0 Preview.

A BigQuery view is a virtual table that represents the results of a SQL query.
The BigQuery view can be formed off of a base query (see below on how to get
access) that maps Google Cloud data into the display names, format, and behavior
of the FOCUS Preview dimensions and metrics. BigQuery views are great because
the queryable virtual table only contains data from the tables and fields
specified in the base query that defines the view. BigQuery views are virtual
tables, so incur no additional charges for data storage if you are already using
Billing Export to BigQuery.

You should spend time optimizing costs, not mapping billing terminology across
Cloud Providers. With the FOCUS BigQuery view, you can now…

 * View and query Google Cloud billing data that is adapted towards the FOCUS
   specification
 * Use the BigQuery view as a data source for a visualization tools like Looker
   Studio
 * Analyze your Google Cloud costs alongside data from other providers using the
   common FOCUS format


HOW IT WORKS

The FOCUS BigQuery view acts as a virtual table that sits on top of your
existing Cloud Billing data. To use this feature, you will need Detailed Billing
Export and Price Exports enabled. Follow these instructions to set up your
billing exports to BigQuery. The FOCUS BigQuery view uses a base SQL query to
map your Cloud Billing data into the FOCUS schema, presenting it in the
specified format. This allows you to query and analyze your data as if it were
native to FOCUS, making it easier to compare costs across different cloud
providers.

We've made it easy to leverage the power of FOCUS with a step-by-step guide. To
view this sample SQL query and follow the step-by-step guide, sign up here.


LOOKING AHEAD: A COMMITMENT TO OPEN STANDARDS AND COLLABORATION

At Google Cloud, open standards are part of our DNA. We were a founding member
of the FinOps Foundation, the first CSP to join the Open Billing Standards
Working group, and a core contributor to the v0.5 and v1.0 specifications. As a
strong advocate for open billing standards, we believe customers deserve a
glimpse of what’s possible with Google Cloud Billing data considering the latest
FOCUS specification.

We look forward to shaping the standards of open billing standards alongside our
customers, FinOps practitioners in the industry, the FinOps Foundation, CSPs,
SaaS providers, and more. Get a unified view of your cloud costs today with the
FOCUS BigQuery view. Sign up here to learn more and get started.

Cost Management

WHEN THEY GO CLOSED, WE GO OPEN – GOOGLE CLOUD AND OPEN BILLING DATA

Google Cloud partnered with the FinOps Foundation on FOCUS, a Linux Foundation
project, to establish an open specification for cloud billing data.

By Sarah McMullin • 5-minute read


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