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Reservation Billed Cost should not be under Service Category "Management and Governance"

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Description

⚠️ Problem

In FOCUS cost exports, the rows carrying the Billed Cost for a storage reservation are categorized in Service Category "Management and Governance". They would better be categorized in "Storage". The rows carrying the usage and Effective Cost for the same reservation are well categorized in "Storage".

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This makes the cost reports look inconsistent when filtering on Service Category = "Storage". This is a typical filter and users expect to see the cost of storage reservations.

In comparison, the Savings Plans look better: the Billed Cost and corresponding Effective Cost rows fall under the same Service Category.

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🛠️ Solution

I propose to categorize the Billed Cost of reservations under the corresponding Service Category (Storage, Compute...). As the first screenshot shows, the row is already associated to Storage through the x_SkuServiceFamily and x_SkuMeterCategory, so it makes sense to have the Service Category equal to "Storage" as well.

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Research direction

Locate the FOCUS cost export mapping that assigns Service Category to reservation Billed Cost rows, then compare it with the existing mapping for reservation usage and Effective Cost. Update the categorization so reservation Billed Cost uses the corresponding service category, such as Storage, and verify that storage reservation costs appear under the Storage filter without changing the existing Savings Plans behavior.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
azure, powershell
Domain
cloud, data
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
52/100

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