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

Personas
FinOps Practitioner
Capabilities
Anomaly Management
KPIs
Anomaly-Detected Cost Avoidance
Source
FOCUS 1.0 sample
Result rows
500
Status
Runs on sample
Execution
PrecomputedRead-only
Result snapshot (UTC)
2026-10-11

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

Chart controls and notes

The largest 7 series keep their own colors; the remaining series are combined as Other.

Query results
Charge dayProvider nameRegion idService nameTotal effective cost
2026-03-12AWSus-east-1Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud-$119.00
2026-03-27AWSus-east-1Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud$104.00
2026-03-30AWSus-east-1Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud-$78.00
2026-03-26AWSus-east-1Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud$72.00
2026-03-17AWSus-east-1Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud-$71.00
2026-03-19AWSus-east-1Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud$51.00
2026-03-16AWSus-east-1Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud$49.00
2026-03-29AWSus-east-1Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud$40.00
2026-03-21AWSus-east-1Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud-$37.00
2026-03-23AWSus-east-1Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud-$37.00
2026-03-09Microsoftwestus2Virtual Machines$36.00
2026-03-25AWSus-east-1Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud$35.00
2026-03-04Microsoftwestus2Azure SQL Database$33.00
2026-03-18Microsoftwestus2Azure SQL Database$31.50
2026-03-15AWSus-east-1Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud-$31.00
2026-03-20AWSus-east-1Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud$31.00
2026-03-16Microsoftwestus2SQL Database$29.18
2026-03-12Microsoftwestus2Azure SQL Database$28.50
2026-03-13AWSus-east-1Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud$27.00
2026-03-18Microsoftwestus2SQL Database$27.00
2026-03-24AWSus-east-1Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud$25.00
2026-03-14AWSus-east-1Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud$24.00
2026-03-28AWSus-east-1Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud$22.00
2026-03-02Microsofteastus2Azure Synapse Analytics$21.02
2026-03-26AWSus-east-1AmazonCloudWatch$21.00
2026-03-18AWSus-east-1Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud-$20.00
2026-03-14Microsofteastus2Azure Synapse Analytics$17.50
2026-03-07MicrosofteastusAzure SQL Database$14.59
2026-03-18MicrosofteastusSQL Database$14.59
2026-03-14MicrosoftsouthcentralusAzure App Service$14.40
2026-03-09AWSus-east-1Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud$14.00
2026-03-11AWSus-east-1Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud$14.00
2026-03-02Microsoftwestus2Virtual Machines$13.70
2026-03-15Microsoftwestus2Virtual Machines$11.27
2026-03-04Microsofteastus2Storage Accounts$11.15
2026-03-04MicrosoftcanadacentralVirtual Machines$10.66
2026-03-03Microsofteastus2Azure Synapse Analytics-$10.51
2026-03-08Microsofteastus2Azure Synapse Analytics$10.51
2026-03-18Microsofteastus2Azure Synapse Analytics-$10.50
2026-03-10MicrosofteastusAzure Load Testing$10.00
2026-03-22AWSus-east-1Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud$10.00
2026-03-25AWSap-northeast-1Amazon CloudFront-$10.00
2026-03-03MicrosoftwestcentralusMicrosoft.Fabric$9.60
2026-03-04Microsoftwestus2Virtual Machines$9.60
2026-03-12MicrosoftwestcentralusMicrosoft.Fabric$9.60
2026-03-10MicrosofteastusVirtual Machine Scale Sets$9.49
2026-03-14Microsoftwestus2Virtual Machines$9.00
2026-03-05Microsoftwestus2Azure SQL Database$8.50
2026-03-15Microsoftwestus2SQL Database$8.44
2026-03-07MicrosofteastusAzure DB for MySQL-$8.21
2026-03-25AWSus-west-2Amazon Relational Database Service-$8.00
2026-03-11Microsoftwestus2Azure SQL Database$7.50
2026-03-01MicrosofteastusAzure SQL Database-$7.30
2026-03-03MicrosofteastusSQL Database$7.30
2026-03-11MicrosofteastusSQL Database$7.30
2026-03-13MicrosofteastusSQL Database$7.30
2026-03-17MicrosofteastusSQL Database-$7.30
2026-03-18MicrosofteastusAzure SQL Database$7.30
2026-03-15MicrosoftsouthcentralusAzure App Service$7.20
2026-03-03AWSus-east-1Datadog$7.20
2026-03-03MicrosoftsouthcentralusAzure App Service$7.20
2026-03-20AWSus-east-1Datadog$7.20
2026-03-21AWSus-east-1Datadog$7.20
2026-03-30AWSus-east-1Datadog$7.20
2026-03-13Microsoftwestus2Virtual Machines$7.18
2026-03-05AWSus-east-1Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud$7.00
2026-03-13MicrosoftwestusVirtual Machines$6.93
2026-03-03MicrosoftwestusVirtual Machines$6.62
2026-03-09AWSeu-central-1Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud$6.00
2026-03-09AWSus-west-2Amazon Relational Database Service$6.00
2026-03-10AWSus-east-1Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud$6.00
2026-03-10Oracle–COMPUTE$6.00
2026-03-21AWSus-west-2Amazon Elastic File System-$6.00
2026-03-01MicrosoftukwestVirtual Machines-$5.91
2026-03-18MicrosofteastusVirtual Machine Scale Sets$5.73
2026-03-19Microsofteastus2Azure Synapse Analytics-$5.68
2026-03-04Microsoftwestus2SQL Database$5.53
2026-03-08MicrosofteastusVirtual Machine Scale Sets-$5.48
2026-03-05MicrosofteastusAzure SQL Database$5.28
2026-03-07MicrosoftfrancecentralVirtual Machines$5.26
2026-03-15MicrosofteastusAzure Kubernetes Service$5.23
2026-03-14MicrosofteastusAzure Kubernetes Service-$5.10
2026-03-01AWSus-east-1Datadog$5.04
2026-03-02AWSeu-central-1Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud$5.00
2026-03-03AWSeu-central-1Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud$5.00
2026-03-04AWSap-southeast-1Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud$5.00
2026-03-06AWSap-southeast-1Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud$5.00
2026-03-14AWSap-southeast-1Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud$5.00
2026-03-14AWSeu-central-1Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud$5.00
2026-03-18AWSap-southeast-1Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud$5.00
2026-03-23AWSus-east-1AWS Config$5.00
2026-03-24AWSap-southeast-1Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud$5.00
2026-03-25AWSeu-central-1Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud$5.00
2026-03-28AWSap-southeast-1Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud$5.00
2026-03-30AWSeu-central-1Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud$5.00
2026-03-13MicrosofteastusVirtual Machine Scale Sets-$4.86
2026-03-02MicrosofteastusAzure SQL Database$4.80
2026-03-03MicrosofteastusAzure SQL Database$4.80
2026-03-10MicrosofteastusSQL Database$4.80
2026-03-08MicrosofteastusAzure Kubernetes Service-$4.78

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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

Columns used

Column names from the source use case.

  • Effective Cost
  • Billing Period Start
  • Provider Name
  • Region ID
  • Service Name
Read the source on focus.finops.org ↗