Column dictionary

BillingPeriodCreated

New in 1.4

Billing 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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Other Billing Period columns

Definition taken from the FOCUS 1.4 specification. FOCUS is published by the FinOps Foundation under CC BY 4.0.

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