Analyzing Service level spending trends over a time period can expose expected and unexpected growth in the consumption of various services, by region, across all providers and is a good way for the FinOps team to prioritize usage and rate optimization conversations with product, engineering and finance leaders within the organization.
Effective cost by provider, region and service over time to spot growth by region. The source groups by the raw ChargePeriodStart (hourly for AWS); this rolls it up to the UTC day for a readable trend, and returns the 500 largest day/region/service rows by absolute cost.
Daily effective cost by region
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The largest 7 series keep their own colors; the remaining series are combined as Other.
Query results
Charge day
Provider name
Region id
Service name
Total effective cost
2026-03-12
AWS
us-east-1
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
-$119.00
2026-03-27
AWS
us-east-1
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
$104.00
2026-03-30
AWS
us-east-1
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
-$78.00
2026-03-26
AWS
us-east-1
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
$72.00
2026-03-17
AWS
us-east-1
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
-$71.00
2026-03-19
AWS
us-east-1
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
$51.00
2026-03-16
AWS
us-east-1
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
$49.00
2026-03-29
AWS
us-east-1
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
$40.00
2026-03-21
AWS
us-east-1
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
-$37.00
2026-03-23
AWS
us-east-1
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
-$37.00
2026-03-09
Microsoft
westus2
Virtual Machines
$36.00
2026-03-25
AWS
us-east-1
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
$35.00
2026-03-04
Microsoft
westus2
Azure SQL Database
$33.00
2026-03-18
Microsoft
westus2
Azure SQL Database
$31.50
2026-03-15
AWS
us-east-1
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
-$31.00
2026-03-20
AWS
us-east-1
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
$31.00
2026-03-16
Microsoft
westus2
SQL Database
$29.18
2026-03-12
Microsoft
westus2
Azure SQL Database
$28.50
2026-03-13
AWS
us-east-1
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
$27.00
2026-03-18
Microsoft
westus2
SQL Database
$27.00
2026-03-24
AWS
us-east-1
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
$25.00
2026-03-14
AWS
us-east-1
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
$24.00
2026-03-28
AWS
us-east-1
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
$22.00
2026-03-02
Microsoft
eastus2
Azure Synapse Analytics
$21.02
2026-03-26
AWS
us-east-1
AmazonCloudWatch
$21.00
2026-03-18
AWS
us-east-1
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
-$20.00
2026-03-14
Microsoft
eastus2
Azure Synapse Analytics
$17.50
2026-03-07
Microsoft
eastus
Azure SQL Database
$14.59
2026-03-18
Microsoft
eastus
SQL Database
$14.59
2026-03-14
Microsoft
southcentralus
Azure App Service
$14.40
2026-03-09
AWS
us-east-1
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
$14.00
2026-03-11
AWS
us-east-1
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
$14.00
2026-03-02
Microsoft
westus2
Virtual Machines
$13.70
2026-03-15
Microsoft
westus2
Virtual Machines
$11.27
2026-03-04
Microsoft
eastus2
Storage Accounts
$11.15
2026-03-04
Microsoft
canadacentral
Virtual Machines
$10.66
2026-03-03
Microsoft
eastus2
Azure Synapse Analytics
-$10.51
2026-03-08
Microsoft
eastus2
Azure Synapse Analytics
$10.51
2026-03-18
Microsoft
eastus2
Azure Synapse Analytics
-$10.50
2026-03-10
Microsoft
eastus
Azure Load Testing
$10.00
2026-03-22
AWS
us-east-1
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
$10.00
2026-03-25
AWS
ap-northeast-1
Amazon CloudFront
-$10.00
2026-03-03
Microsoft
westcentralus
Microsoft.Fabric
$9.60
2026-03-04
Microsoft
westus2
Virtual Machines
$9.60
2026-03-12
Microsoft
westcentralus
Microsoft.Fabric
$9.60
2026-03-10
Microsoft
eastus
Virtual Machine Scale Sets
$9.49
2026-03-14
Microsoft
westus2
Virtual Machines
$9.00
2026-03-05
Microsoft
westus2
Azure SQL Database
$8.50
2026-03-15
Microsoft
westus2
SQL Database
$8.44
2026-03-07
Microsoft
eastus
Azure DB for MySQL
-$8.21
2026-03-25
AWS
us-west-2
Amazon Relational Database Service
-$8.00
2026-03-11
Microsoft
westus2
Azure SQL Database
$7.50
2026-03-01
Microsoft
eastus
Azure SQL Database
-$7.30
2026-03-03
Microsoft
eastus
SQL Database
$7.30
2026-03-11
Microsoft
eastus
SQL Database
$7.30
2026-03-13
Microsoft
eastus
SQL Database
$7.30
2026-03-17
Microsoft
eastus
SQL Database
-$7.30
2026-03-18
Microsoft
eastus
Azure SQL Database
$7.30
2026-03-15
Microsoft
southcentralus
Azure App Service
$7.20
2026-03-03
AWS
us-east-1
Datadog
$7.20
2026-03-03
Microsoft
southcentralus
Azure App Service
$7.20
2026-03-20
AWS
us-east-1
Datadog
$7.20
2026-03-21
AWS
us-east-1
Datadog
$7.20
2026-03-30
AWS
us-east-1
Datadog
$7.20
2026-03-13
Microsoft
westus2
Virtual Machines
$7.18
2026-03-05
AWS
us-east-1
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
$7.00
2026-03-13
Microsoft
westus
Virtual Machines
$6.93
2026-03-03
Microsoft
westus
Virtual Machines
$6.62
2026-03-09
AWS
eu-central-1
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
$6.00
2026-03-09
AWS
us-west-2
Amazon Relational Database Service
$6.00
2026-03-10
AWS
us-east-1
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
$6.00
2026-03-10
Oracle
–
COMPUTE
$6.00
2026-03-21
AWS
us-west-2
Amazon Elastic File System
-$6.00
2026-03-01
Microsoft
ukwest
Virtual Machines
-$5.91
2026-03-18
Microsoft
eastus
Virtual Machine Scale Sets
$5.73
2026-03-19
Microsoft
eastus2
Azure Synapse Analytics
-$5.68
2026-03-04
Microsoft
westus2
SQL Database
$5.53
2026-03-08
Microsoft
eastus
Virtual Machine Scale Sets
-$5.48
2026-03-05
Microsoft
eastus
Azure SQL Database
$5.28
2026-03-07
Microsoft
francecentral
Virtual Machines
$5.26
2026-03-15
Microsoft
eastus
Azure Kubernetes Service
$5.23
2026-03-14
Microsoft
eastus
Azure Kubernetes Service
-$5.10
2026-03-01
AWS
us-east-1
Datadog
$5.04
2026-03-02
AWS
eu-central-1
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
$5.00
2026-03-03
AWS
eu-central-1
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
$5.00
2026-03-04
AWS
ap-southeast-1
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
$5.00
2026-03-06
AWS
ap-southeast-1
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
$5.00
2026-03-14
AWS
ap-southeast-1
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
$5.00
2026-03-14
AWS
eu-central-1
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
$5.00
2026-03-18
AWS
ap-southeast-1
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
$5.00
2026-03-23
AWS
us-east-1
AWS Config
$5.00
2026-03-24
AWS
ap-southeast-1
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
$5.00
2026-03-25
AWS
eu-central-1
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
$5.00
2026-03-28
AWS
ap-southeast-1
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
$5.00
2026-03-30
AWS
eu-central-1
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
$5.00
2026-03-13
Microsoft
eastus
Virtual Machine Scale Sets
-$4.86
2026-03-02
Microsoft
eastus
Azure SQL Database
$4.80
2026-03-03
Microsoft
eastus
Azure SQL Database
$4.80
2026-03-10
Microsoft
eastus
SQL Database
$4.80
2026-03-08
Microsoft
eastus
Azure Kubernetes Service
-$4.78
Showing 100 of 500 rows. Scroll inside the table to see more.
Precomputed result
Inspect Postgres SQL and original FOCUS SQL
Postgres SQL, as run
select date_trunc('day', charge_period_start) as charge_day,
provider_name,
region_id,
service_name,
sum(effective_cost) as total_effective_cost
from focus.cost_and_usage
where charge_period_start >= $1::timestamptz
and charge_period_end < $2::timestamptz
group by 1, 2, 3, 4
order by abs(sum(effective_cost)) desc nulls last, charge_day, provider_name, region_id, service_name
limit 500
Parameters: $1 = period_start, $2 = period_end
Original FOCUS SQL
SELECT
ChargePeriodStart,
ProviderName,
RegionId,
ServiceName,
SUM(EffectiveCost) AS TotalEffectiveCost
FROM focus_data_table
WHERE ChargePeriodStart >= ? and ChargePeriodEnd < ?
GROUP BY
ChargePeriodStart,
ProviderName,
RegionId,
ServiceName
ORDER BY ChargePeriodStart,
SUM(EffectiveCost) DESC