Focus Project Overview (by Udom)

Introduction to Udom

• Udom: Long-term practitioner in cloud financial management
• Former Global Head of Cloud Financial Management at City
• Joined Linux Foundation full-time to work on Focus project
• Honored to have Udom on the team

Focus Project Details

• Focus: Open-source specification for cloud billing data
• Working backwards from the output of a fair and serviceable data format
• Important for both billing data consumers and producers

Goals of Focus

• Provide a vendor-neutral, cross-cloud schema
• Align terminology with FinOps
• Ensure consistency and comprehensiveness in billing data

Importance of Focus

• Build trust in cost and usage data
• Enable organizations to make value-based decisions using cloud data
• Simplify the lives of FinOps practitioners by reducing data complexity and inconsistency
• Cater to multi-cloud and advanced cost management needs

How Focus Solves the Problem

• Reduces burden on practitioners by providing a unified schema and terminology
• Vendors can adopt the specification to standardize their billing data
• Community-driven open-source connectors for non-adopting vendors

Real-life Application

• Example: City had to consolidate cost data across multiple cloud and SaaS vendors for comprehensive visibility
• Focus aims to solve similar issues faced by many organizations

Roadmap and Progress

• Steering committee formed (March)
• Contributor License Agreement published; several approvals already
• Multiple working groups kicked off
• Initial 0.5 release targeting cost reporting and chargeback use cases
• Plans for expanding to other FinOps capabilities and adding support for more data providers

How to Get Involved

• Early days of the specification - opportunity to contribute
• Progress and issues tracked on GitHub
• Contributor license agreement necessary for participation
• Connect via GitHub, chat (
• finops.org, and on the website for updates