Export cost details using the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS)
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The FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) is a groundbreaking initiative to establish a common provider and service agnostic format for billing data that empowers organizations to better understand cost and usage patterns and optimize spending and performance across multiple cloud, software as a service (SaaS), and even on-premises service offerings. Microsoft Cost Management is introducing support for cost and usage data exports aligned to the FOCUS schema as part of a limited preview leading up to the next major FOCUS release.
[Sign up for the FOCUS preview](https://aka.ms/costmgmt/focuspreview).
To learn more about FOCUS and why we believe it's important, see [FOCUS: A new specification for cloud cost transparency](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/focus-a-new-specification-for-cloud-cost-transparency/).
![Screenshot of a FinOps toolkit Power BI report showing Azure cost data broken down by FOCUS service category and service name. See https://aka.ms/ftk/pbi.](https://azurecomcdn.azureedge.net/mediahandler/acomblog/updates/UpdatesV2/blog/8ca9b4a3-6727-4d4e-b2e4-f90b8b31aed5.png)
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