Verify Accuracy of Provider Invoices

This query uses the Provider column. Provider is deprecated in v1.3 and will be removed in v1.4.

Personas: FinOps Practitioner
Capabilities: Data Ingestion
KPIs: Frequency of Data Updates, ETL Processing Time, Cost Visibility Delay

Verify accuracy of provider invoices

Runs on sample

Source: FOCUS 1.0 sample
Result rows: 4
Status: Runs on sample
Execution: PrecomputedRead-only
Result snapshot (UTC): 2026-10-11

Totals billed cost per provider, billing account and billing currency for comparison with provider invoices. Billing currency is USD throughout, except 4 zero-cost Oracle rows with no currency.

Billed cost by billing account

Query results
Provider name	Billing account id	Billing account name	Billing currency	Total billed cost
AWS	1234567890123	SunBird	USD	$833.61
Microsoft	/providers/Microsoft.Billing/billingAccounts/8611537	SunBird	USD	$567.21
Oracle	20209880	–	USD	$23.53
Oracle	20209880	–	–	$0.00

4 rows. Scroll inside the table to see more.

Default parameters use the precomputed result, generated as the read-only focus_reader role.

Inspect Postgres SQL and original FOCUS SQL

Postgres SQL, as run

select provider_name as provider_name,
       billing_account_id as billing_account_id,
       billing_account_name as billing_account_name,
       billing_currency as billing_currency,
       sum(billed_cost) as total_billed_cost
from focus.cost_and_usage
where billing_period_start >= $1::timestamptz
  and billing_period_end < $2::timestamptz
group by provider_name, billing_account_id, billing_account_name, billing_currency
order by total_billed_cost desc nulls last, provider_name, billing_account_id
limit 500

Parameters: $1 = billing_period_start, $2 = billing_period_end

Original FOCUS SQL

SELECT
  ProviderName,
  BillingAccountId,
  BillingAccountName,
  BillingCurrency,
  SUM(BilledCost) AS TotalBilledCost
FROM focus_data_table
WHERE BillingPeriodStart >= ? AND BillingPeriodEnd < ?
GROUP BY
  ProviderName,
  BillingAccountId,
  BillingAccountName,
  BillingCurrency

Columns used

Column names from the source use case.

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