FinOps FOCUS 1.2¶

What is FOCUS?¶

FOCUS (FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification) is the open standard for cloud cost and usage data normalization. Published by the FinOps Foundation, FOCUS 1.2 defines a vendor-neutral schema for expressing cloud financial data from multiple providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) in a unified, comparable format.

FOCUS 1.2 (released mid-2024) provides 60+ normative columns covering billing dimensions, service classification, resource identification, location, pricing, and costs — enabling consistent cost analysis across multi-cloud environments.

Why runbooks implements FOCUS¶

The runbooks CLI's finops command group natively exports FOCUS-compliant cost data, allowing FinOps leaders and CFOs to:

Validate cost accuracy across AWS and Azure accounts using a single schema
Integrate with ServiceNow, Atlassian, and cloud FinOps tools that consume FOCUS standard
Reduce reconciliation effort by aligning internal cost models to an open standard
Future-proof cost automation against vendor-specific API changes

This section documents which FOCUS 1.2 columns runbooks produces, how to access them via the CLI, and how we validate ≥99.5% accuracy against AWS Cost Explorer and Azure Cost Management.

Pages in This Section¶

Specification Mapping — Complete FOCUS 1.2 column reference with definitions and data types
runbooks finops ↔ FOCUS Columns — Maps each FOCUS column to the runbooks finops CLI output that produces it
MCP Cross-Validation ≥99.5% — Quality gate methodology ensuring runbooks output matches AWS/Azure APIs within ≥99.5% accuracy

Quick Start¶

# Export cost data in FOCUS 1.2 format (AWS)
runbooks finops focus-export --profile $AWS_BILLING_PROFILE --format csv \
  --month 2026-05 --output costs-2026-05-focus.csv

# Validate against FOCUS 1.2 schema
runbooks validation focus-schema --file costs-2026-05-focus.csv

# Cross-validate with AWS Cost Explorer (MCP)
runbooks validation cross-validate --file costs-2026-05-focus.csv \
  --method focus-vs-ce --profile $AWS_BILLING_PROFILE

See /runbooks/cli/finops/ for the complete finops command reference.

FOCUS Specification: https://focus.finops.org/ | FinOps Foundation: https://www.finops.org/