BillingPeriodCreated
New in 1.4Billing Period Created · Billing Period dataset
- Feature level
- Mandatory
- Data type
- Date/Time
- Allows nulls
- No
- Column type
- Dimension
What it is
Billing Period Created is the timestamp when the Billing Period record was first created. This timestamp facilitates auditability of the charge and invoice lifecycle, allowing the FinOps practitioner to distinguish between the time of service consumption and the time of financial record generation.
Requirements (4)
Verbatim from the specification. These are the statements the validator checks against.
- BillingPeriodCreated MUST be of type Date/Time.
- BillingPeriodCreated MUST conform to DateTimeFormat requirements.
- BillingPeriodCreated MUST NOT be null.
- BillingPeriodCreated MUST represent the moment in time the Billing Period record was instantiated.
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Definition taken from the FOCUS 1.4 specification. FOCUS is published by the FinOps Foundation under CC BY 4.0.
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