The Cost and Usage Explorer is a powerful tool within the Umbrella Cloud Cost management platform that empowers you to understand and optimize your cloud expenses. By harnessing the filtering and grouping capabilities of this tool you can break down your costs into granular details and uncover valuable insights about your cloud consumption.

In this article, you will find all the dimensions within the Cost and Usage Explorer, with a detailed understanding of each and how they empower you to make informed decisions.

AWS

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Terminology and drill down hierarchy:
Note: the hierarchy can change between different services

Azure

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GCP

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Terminology and drill down hierarchy:

AWS dimensions

Dimension	Explanation	Example Values	Equivalent name on AWS Cost Explorer
Cost Type	Cost - all the costs (positive numbers), and billing rules for reseller customers (negative numbers). Discount - discount costs, negative amount according to the billing. Credit - all the credits from the cloud provider, or credits from resellers to their customers. Refund - refund from the cloud provider according to the billing invoice.	Cost, Discount, Credit, Refund
Region	The geographic areas where AWS hosts your resources.	EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1	Region
Linked Account	The member accounts in an organization.		Linked Account
Service	AWS services products.	EC2	Service
Cost Center for direct accounts only	Umbrella feature that enables you to define business units of linked accounts (More info ).
Tags	The value of the tag key.	If the tag is "Department": "R&D", the "R&D" is the selected value.	Tags
Quantity Type	Unit of measurement used to quantify a specific resource or service usage.	Bytes, Hours, Requests, Other
Virtual Tags	Umbrella feature that enables you to combine several tag keys together (More info ).
Operation	Detailed breakdown of family type.	Linux, GP2, etc.
Purchase Option	The payment method you choose for an eligible AWS service.	On-Demand, Reserved, Savings Plans, Spot	Purchase Option
Family Type	Grouping of services.	Compute, EBS etc.
Instance Type	Specifies the type of the instance used, defined by the combination of CPU, memory, storage, and network capacity.	m5.large
Sub Service	Breakdown of Data Transfer.	Data Transfer: AWS Amplify
Charge Type	Types of charges or fees.	RI Fee, EDP Estimated, etc.	Charge Type
Filter Group	Umbrella feature that enables you to create a view based on Cost & Usage filters (More info).
Business Mapping	Umbrella feature that enables cost calculation across different product segments, helping to facilitate data-driven decisions on pricing, renewal strategies, and more (More info ).
Usage Type	Each service uses a different usage type and region to measure the usage of a particular resource.	AFS1-DataTransfer-Out-Bytes (GB)	Usage Type
Availability Zone	Geographically isolated data center within a region.	ap-east-1a	Availability Zone
Resource	The unique identifier for your resource.		Resource
Enrichment Tags	Umbrella feature that enables you to add additional details associated with each linked account (More info ).
Normalization Factor	normalization factor that AWS applies to each instance size (Learn More ).
Platform	Describes the operating system or platform running on the instance.	Linux	Platform
DB Engine	Indicates the database engine used in an RDS instance.	MySQL	Database Engine
Billing Entity	Identifies whether your invoices or transactions relate to the AWS Marketplace or to other AWS services.	AWS Marketplace	Billing Entity
Legal Entity	The Seller of Record of a specific product or service.	Amazon Web Services, Inc	Legal Entity
Payment Option	Specifies the payment plan.	All Upfront
Invoice ID On the Assets page only	The Invoice ID helps in reconciling the AWS Cost and Usage Report with the actual invoice issued by AWS for that billing period.
Commitment ARN	The ARN of your Commitments (Savings Plans or Reservations).

Azure dimensions

Dimension	Explanation	Example Values	Equivalent name on AWS Cost Explorer
Cost Type	Cost - all the costs (positive numbers), and billing rules for reseller customers (negative numbers). Discount - discount costs, negative amount according to the billing. Credit - all the credits from the cloud provider, or credits from resellers to their customers. Refund - refund from the cloud provider according to the billing invoice.	Cost, Discount, Credit, Refund
Subscription	The member accounts in an organization.		Subscription
Resource Group	Logical unit where you can deploy and manage your resources such as databases and storage accounts.		Resource Group name
Meter Category	Grouping of services.	Storage	Meter Category
Sub Meter Category	Specific details about the Meter Category.	Backup Storage	Meter SubCategory
Region	The geographic areas where Azure hosts your resources.	ap-southeast	Location
Service	Azure products.	Virtual Network, Load Balancer, etc.	Service name
Meter Name	Detailed breakdown of Sub Meter Category.	4 vCPU	Meter
Purchase Option	The payment method you choose.	On-Demand, Reserved, Savings Plans, Spot	Pricing Model
Line Type for Resellers only	Type of Charge Categories.
Quantity Type	Unit of measurement used to quantify a specific resource or service usage.	Bytes, Hours, Requests, Other
Cost Center for direct accounts only	Umbrella feature that enables you to define business units of linked accounts (More info ).
Tags	The value of the tag key.	If the tag is "Department": "R&D", the "R&D" is the selected value.	Tags
Filter Group	Umbrella feature that enables you to create a view based on Cost & Usage filters (More info).
Business Mapping	Umbrella feature that enables cost calculation across different product segments, helping to facilitate data-driven decisions on pricing, renewal strategies, and more (More info ).
Usage Type	Types of charges or fees.	RI fee
Resource	The unique identifier for your resource.		Resource
Enrichment Tags	Umbrella feature that enables you to add additional details associated with each linked account (More info ).
Benefit	The name of the purchased commitment.		Benefit
Publisher Name (for FOCUS exports only)	Name of the entity that produced the resources or services that were purchased.	Microsoft
Publisher Category (for FOCUS exports only)	Indicates whether a charge is from a cloud provider or third-party Marketplace vendor.	Cloud Provider
Charge Category (for FOCUS exports only)	The highest level classification for the type of charge that the billing row represents.	Usage
Partner Credit Rate (for FOCUS exports only)	The rate earned based on the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) Partner Earned Credit (PEC) applied.	0.15
Azure Cost Center (for FOCUS exports only)	Cost Center, as defined in the Azure console
Azure Invoice ID (for FOCUS exports only)	Unique identifier for the invoice the charge was billed on.
Invoice Section ID (for FOCUS exports only)	Unique identifier for the MCA invoice section or EA department.
Invoice Section Name (for FOCUS exports only)	Display name for the MCA invoice section or EA department.

GCP dimensions

Dimension	Explanation	Example Values	Equivalent name on AWS Cost Explorer
Cost Type	Cost - all the costs (positive numbers), and billing rules for reseller customers (negative numbers). Discount - discount costs, negative amount according to the billing. Credit - all the credits from the cloud provider, or credits from resellers to their customers. Refund - refund from the cloud provider according to the billing invoice.	Cost, Discount, Credit, Refund
Region	The geographic areas where GCP hosts your resources.	us-west1	Locations
Projects	The member accounts in an organization.		Projects
Service	GCP products.		Service
Operation	Detailed breakdown of family type.	E2 Instance Core running in EMEA
Family Type	Grouping of services.	Compute, Network, etc.
Cost Center for direct accounts only	Umbrella feature that enables you to define business units of linked accounts (More info ).
Labels	The value of the tag key.	If the tag is "Department": "R&D", the "R&D" is the selected value.	Labels
Cost Type Description	Types of charges or fees.	Discount, Promotion, etc.
Filter Group	Umbrella feature that enables you to create a view based on Cost & Usage filters (More info).
Business Mapping	Umbrella feature that enables cost calculation across different product segments, helping to facilitate data-driven decisions on pricing, renewal strategies, and more (More info ).
Resource	The unique identifier for your resource.		Resource
Enrichment Tags	Umbrella feature that enables you to add additional details associated with each linked account (More info ).