Verify Accuracy of Provider Invoices
In order to verify that the charges found in the FOCUS dataset match those of the providers invoices a FinOps Practitioner can aggregate cost data from providers for a billing period and compare it to invoices.
- Source
- FOCUS MCP snapshot
- FOCUS editions
- v1.0, v1.1, v1.2
- Queries
- 1
- Mode
- Read-only
- Library snapshot (UTC)
- 2026-10-08
This query uses the Provider column. Provider is deprecated in v1.3 and will be removed in v1.4.
Verify accuracy of provider invoices
Runs on sample- Source
- FOCUS 1.0 sample
- Result rows
- 4
- Status
- Runs on sample
- Execution
- Precomputed
- Result snapshot (UTC)
- 2026-10-11
Billed cost by billing account
4 rows. Scroll inside the table to see more.
Inspect Postgres SQL and original FOCUS SQL
Postgres SQL, as run
select provider_name as provider_name,
billing_account_id as billing_account_id,
billing_account_name as billing_account_name,
billing_currency as billing_currency,
sum(billed_cost) as total_billed_cost
from focus.cost_and_usage
where billing_period_start >= $1::timestamptz
and billing_period_end < $2::timestamptz
group by provider_name, billing_account_id, billing_account_name, billing_currency
order by total_billed_cost desc nulls last, provider_name, billing_account_id
limit 500Original FOCUS SQL
SELECT ProviderName, BillingAccountId, BillingAccountName, BillingCurrency, SUM(BilledCost) AS TotalBilledCost FROM focus_data_table WHERE BillingPeriodStart >= ? AND BillingPeriodEnd < ? GROUP BY ProviderName, BillingAccountId, BillingAccountName, BillingCurrency
Columns used
Column names from the source use case.