Overview
Cost dimensions allow you to slice and dice your cost information to provide insights on spend and potential savings. This page describes the bill-based cost dimensions, but there are also RightScale-generated dimensions and custom dimensions.
Bill-based cost dimensions are dimensions whose values are derived directly from data in the cloud provider bill. These dimensions are generally not modified (or only lightly modified) and represent a true representation of the data in the bill. When the provider adds new values for these dimensions (such as adding a new resource type), the data is immediately available in RightScale.
Bill-based dimension reference information
The specific mappings from the vendor data to RightScale dimensions can be found for each vendor below. Note that some dimensions are available only in the Monthly CSV Report exports.
Amazon Web Services
Data for AWS is sourced from the cost and usage report CSV from AWS. The source columns below are the column names that correlate to data in those billing files.
Optima dimension | Source column | Notes |
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Cloud Vendor | N/A | Always Amazon Web Services |
Cloud Vendor Account | lineItem/UsageAccountId |
AWS documentation |
Instance Type | product/instanceType |
Not available for all resources. AWS documentation |
Region | product/location |
AWS documentation |
Resource Type | product/productFamily |
AWS documentation |
Service | lineItem/ProductCode |
AWS documentation |
Resource ID | lineItem/ReesourceId |
Monthly Export Only |
Resource Name | resourceTags/user:Name |
Monthly Export Only |
Usage Type | lineItem/UsageType |
Monthly Export Only If lineItem/LineItemType is DiscountedUsage or UsageType matches HeavyUsage , MediumUsage , or LightUsage , UsageType is set to DiscountedUsage. Additionally if lineItem/LineItemType is Tax or Fee (ie. does not contains Usage ), lineItem/LineItemType is appended to UsageType to differentiate Tax and Fee from Usage type. |
Resource Group | Monthly Export Only N/A for AWS |
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Datacenter | lineItem/AvailabilityZone |
Monthly Export Only |
Data for Google Cloud Platform is sourced from the BigQuery billing export from GCP. The source columns below are the column names that correlate to the fields in BigQuery. Reference information for all fields from Google BigQuery billing exports can be found here.
Optima dimension | Source column | Notes |
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Cloud Vendor | N/A | Always Google |
Cloud Vendor Account | project.id |
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Instance Type | Not currently available from Google source data | |
Region | Not currently available from Google source data | |
Resource Type | sku.description |
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Service | service.description |
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Resource ID | Monthly Export Only Resource-level is not yet available in GCP, so this field is a unique identifier for the type of usage represented by this cost. |
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Resource Name | Monthly Export Only N/A for Google |
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Usage Type | Monthly Export Only N/A for Google |
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Resource Group | Monthly Export Only N/A for Google |
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Datacenter | Monthly Export Only N/A for Google |
Microsoft Azure Enterprise Agreement
Data for Microsoft Azure is sourced from the Enterprise billing Usage Details API. The source columns below are the fields from that API response. Reference information for all fields from the Azure billing API can be found here.
Optima dimension | Source column | Notes |
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Cloud Vendor | N/A | Always Microsoft Azure |
Cloud Vendor Account | subscriptionGuid |
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Instance Type | additionalInfo.serviceType |
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Region | resourceLocation |
Falls back to meterRegion if the location can't be mapped. Values are normalized to a common format |
Resource Type | meterCategory -meterSubCategory |
SubCategory is excluded if it's the same as Category.Marketplace Charge-[PublisherName]for marketplace charges. Reservation Order-[Description]for Reserved Instance charges. |
Service | consumedService |
Prepends Microsoft.if not already present. Always Microsoft.Marketplacefor marketplace charges. Always Microsoft.Reservationfor Reserved Instance charges. |
Resource ID | instanceId |
Monthly Export Only |
Resource Name | Monthly Export Only N/A for Azure |
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Usage Type | meterName |
Monthly Export Only |
Resource Group | resourceGroup |
Monthly Export Only |
Datacenter | Monthly Export Only N/A for Azure |