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BillingPeriodLastUpdated

New in 1.4

Billing Period Last Updated · Billing Period dataset

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Feature level
Mandatory
Data type
Date/Time
Allows nulls
No
Column type
Dimension

What it is

Billing Period Last Updated is the timestamp when the Billing Period record was last updated. This timestamp helps FinOps practitioners ensure that they are working with the most current version of a record, particularly if corrections or status changes have been applied to the record after its initial creation.

Requirements (5)

Verbatim from the specification. The validator checks presence, type, nulls and allowed values, not every statement below.

  • BillingPeriodLastUpdated MUST be of type Date/Time.
  • BillingPeriodLastUpdated MUST conform to DateTimeFormat requirements.
  • BillingPeriodLastUpdated MUST NOT be null.
  • BillingPeriodLastUpdated MUST represent the most recent moment in time when any column value of the Billing Period record was created or modified.
  • BillingPeriodLastUpdated MUST be greater than or equal to BillingPeriodCreated.

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Other Billing Period columns

BillingPeriodCreatedBillingPeriodEndBillingPeriodStartBillingPeriodStatusInvoiceIssuerName

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

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