Product Grouping
Product Group is the highest level roll-up of CSP services; Compute, Storage, Managed Database, etc. These are cloud agnostic and a CSP service will only fall into one Product Group.
Product Category is the next level down from Product Group and is still cloud agnostic such as compute usage, data transfer, disk storage, monitoring, etc. There is not a 1:1 between Product Group and Product Category. Each Group will have multiple Categories and a Category can exist in multiple Groups. For example, the category “Data Transfer” will appear under the Product Groups of Compute, Storage, Managed Database, Network & Content Delivery, etc.
Product is the CSP-specific service name from the billing file. Most often, the CSP lists the full name of the product as opposed to the common name, such as Amazon Simple Storage Service instead of S3, and Azure Kubernetes Service instead of AKS. A Product will map to only one Product Group, but will have multiple Product Categories. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud belongs to the Compute Product Group and is attached to the following categories:
- Compute Usage
- Data Transfer
- Disk Backups
- Disk Backups Overhead
- Disk Overhead
- Disk Storage
- Virtual Machine Overhead
Product Detail Category is again CSP-specific and comes from the CSP billing data with some normalization done by the Vega team. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud belongs to the Compute Product Group and has a Product Category called Data Transfer. The detailed billing line may look like “$0.0075 per GB from 153,600 GB - Download bandwidth consumed in GigaBytes”, but the Vega Product Detail Category will be “AWS Outbound" for normalization.