BillingPeriodStart
New in 1.4Billing Period Start · 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 Start represents the inclusive start bound of a billing period. For example, a time period where Billing Period Start is '2024-01-01T00:00:00Z' and Billing Period End is '2024-02-01T00:00:00Z' includes January since Billing Period Start represents the inclusive start bound, but does not include February since BillingPeriodEnd represents the exclusive end bound.
Requirements (4)
Verbatim from the specification. The validator checks presence, type, nulls and allowed values, not every statement below.
- BillingPeriodStart MUST be of type Date/Time.
- BillingPeriodStart MUST conform to DateTimeFormat requirements.
- BillingPeriodStart MUST NOT be null.
- BillingPeriodStart MUST be the inclusive start bound of the billing period.
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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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