Data Dictionary

The table below outlines the columns in Vega's dataset, along with their definitions. This table is a resource to better understand how to analyze FinOps data in the Vega platform, as well as building your own dashboards and reports off of.

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Column Name	Definition
application	Tag specific to identifying applications. Vega adds cleaning logic to account for capitalization and spelling errors.
billing_account_id	Unique identifier for an entity's billing and financial management.
billing_unit	This is a normalized field that represents how each resource line is billed such as instance hour, GB/hr, request, etc.
business_group	Name of the high level aggregation of internal organization.
business_unit	Organizational unit derived from linked account and/or tags.
channel	The channel a specific resource is associated with.
client_name	Name of the client.
closing_month	The calendar month in which the usage occurs.
cloud_provider	The company or organization offering cloud computing services and resources. For example: AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.
cloud_provider_identifier	Concatenation of linked account name and ID.
cloud_region	Name of the region where the resource resides. For example: US East.
cloud_specific_location	Specific location of the resource. This is a more granular version of cloud region. For example: US East (N. Virginia).
cost_category	Breaks out billing lines by type, such as Credits, Marketplace purchases, On Demand usage, Savings plan coverage usage, etc.
coverable_application_type	Represents the type of product category or product cost detail category covered for a resource.
disk_type	Type of disk used.
disk_usage_gb	The amount of disk usage in GB.
environment	This is parsed from the linked account name, resource ID and the tag.
environment_source	The value that assigns the environment such as tag, linked account, resource, etc.
financial_owner_email	Email of the financial owner.
financial_owner_name	Name of the financial owner.
instance_type	The specific family, size and generation of a particular resource. For example: an AWS EC2 instance such as M5.xlarge.
is_committed_use_eligible	To check if a resource is eligible for committed use discount.
lease_ownership_type	Type of lease ownership.
lease_purchase_month	The calendar month in which the lease is purchased.
line_item_type	Classification or category used to label and describe individual charges.
linked_account_id	Unique identifier assigned to an associated account within a platform.
linked_account_name	Name of the linked account. For example: account name for AWS, subscription name for Azure, and project name for GCP.
migration	Tag specific to Migration - typically Yes or No.
migration_origin	Tag specific to Migration which denotes which data center it was migrated from. Vega adds cleaning logic to account for capitalization and spelling errors.
net_cash	Represents the sum of Gross Cash, Support Fees, Cross Service Discounts, Support Discounts and/or Private Rate Discounts.
net_fiscal_amount	Amount that includes amortization of upfront cash associated with Committed Use purchases as well as large Marketplaces purchases which are amortized over the term of the agreement. This also includes premium support allocation to each line of billing data as well as any credit allocations and billing error corrections.
ondemand_cost	The cost/ expense incurred for resources or services that are utilized as needed, without a fixed, ongoing commitment.
operating_system	The operating system associated with specific usage such as Windows, Linux, Red Hat, etc.
platform	Name of the platform used/ in use.
product	Individual product values defined by the cloud provider. For Example: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.
product_category	An aggregation of individual products into natural grouping categories. These apply across AWS, GCP and Azure. For Example: Containers, Data Transfer, Disk storage, etc. This is a more granular version of product group.
product_cost_detail_category	This is a more granular version of product category which breaks out Data Transfer into items such as AWS Inbound and AWS Outbound.
product_group	A higher level grouping than product cost detail category. This allows Vega to group individual consumption items into categories across clouds in a way that creates more meaningful aggregations of cloud consumption.
reporting_month	The length of time for which usage is reported. For example: current, this month, last month, or last year. Note: If the day of the current date is less than or equal to 10, then reporting_month is set as 'current' whereas if it is greater than 10 then the reporting_month is set as 'this month'.
ri_sp_arn	RI/SP ARNs are used for various purposes, including tagging, policy management, and resource access control. They allow you to reference and work with specific CUD instances within your AWS account.
savings	Represents the amount of money saved.
snapshot_origin	Represents the source or point in time from which a snapshot of data or a system state is taken.
steady_state	This is a Vega defined logic used to check if the resource is running greater than 95% of the available time during a month. This drives specific recommendations such as autoparking.
technical_owner_email	Email of the technical owner.
technical_owner_name	Name of the technical owner.
technical_team_owner	Name of the technical team owner.
usage_amount	Refers to the quantity or volume of a particular resource, product, service, or item consumed or utilized within a specified period.
usage_day	The date when the usage occurs.
usage_type	Raw usage type from cloud provider billing that is a combination field. For example: BoxUsage:c4.xlarge represents instance based usage in AWS of a particular family, region and size type.