vocabulary:
  domain: AWS Billing and Cost Management
  description: >-
    Taxonomy and vocabulary for AWS Billing and Cost Management covering
    FinOps, cost analysis, budgeting, anomaly detection, and cost optimization.

  concepts:
    - term: Cost Explorer
      definition: >-
        AWS tool for visualizing and analyzing AWS costs and usage over
        time with filtering, grouping, and forecasting capabilities.

    - term: Budget
      definition: >-
        A defined spending or usage limit with notification thresholds that
        alerts stakeholders when actual or forecasted spend approaches or
        exceeds the limit.

    - term: Budget Action
      definition: >-
        An automated response to a budget threshold breach, such as applying
        an IAM policy to restrict resource provisioning or running an SSM
        automation document.

    - term: Cost Anomaly Detection
      definition: >-
        An ML-powered service that identifies unusual spending patterns
        across AWS accounts, services, or cost categories and sends alerts.

    - term: Cost Category
      definition: >-
        A user-defined mapping of AWS costs to organizational dimensions
        (teams, projects, environments) for chargeback and showback reporting.

    - term: Cost Allocation Tag
      definition: >-
        A metadata key-value pair applied to AWS resources that appears
        in cost reports for tracking costs by resource.

    - term: Chargeback
      definition: >-
        A cost accounting practice where AWS costs are allocated and
        charged back to the business units or teams that incurred them.

    - term: Showback
      definition: >-
        A cost transparency practice where AWS costs are reported to
        business units without direct financial charging.

    - term: Rightsizing
      definition: >-
        The process of analyzing and adjusting resource configurations
        to eliminate idle or underutilized capacity while maintaining
        performance requirements.

    - term: Savings Plans
      definition: >-
        A flexible pricing model offering lower prices in exchange for
        a usage commitment ($/hour) over a 1 or 3-year term for compute,
        SageMaker, or Lambda workloads.

    - term: Reserved Instance
      definition: >-
        A billing discount applied to On-Demand instance usage in exchange
        for a 1 or 3-year commitment for EC2, RDS, Redshift, and other services.

    - term: Blended Cost
      definition: >-
        The average cost per unit across all usage within a consolidated
        billing family, blending On-Demand and Reserved Instance rates.

    - term: Unblended Cost
      definition: >-
        The actual per-resource cost at the rate applied to each individual
        resource usage record.

    - term: Amortized Cost
      definition: >-
        Cost representation that spreads upfront Reserved Instance or
        Savings Plans fees evenly across the commitment period.

    - term: Granularity
      definition: >-
        The time resolution for cost data: HOURLY, DAILY, or MONTHLY.

    - term: FinOps
      label: Financial Operations
      definition: >-
        A practice combining financial accountability with engineering
        efficiency to optimize cloud spending while maintaining performance.

  dimensions:
    - SERVICE
    - LINKED_ACCOUNT
    - REGION
    - AZ
    - INSTANCE_TYPE
    - USAGE_TYPE
    - OPERATION
    - TAG
    - COST_CATEGORY

  tags:
    - Billing
    - Cost Management
    - FinOps
    - Cloud Financial Management
    - Cost Optimization
    - Budgets
    - Cost Explorer
    - AWS
    - Amazon Web Services
    - Reserved Instances
    - Savings Plans
    - Anomaly Detection