3.1.30 Consumed Unit

The Consumed Unit represents a service-provider-specified measurement unit indicating how a service provider measures usage of a metered SKU associated with a resource or service. Consumed Unit complements the Consumed Quantity metric. It is often listed at a finer granularity or over a different time interval when compared to Pricing Unit (complementary to Pricing Quantity), and focuses on resource and service consumption, not pricing and cost.

ConsumedUnit adheres to the following requirements:

• ConsumedUnit MUST be present in a Cost and Usage FOCUS dataset when the service provider supports the measurement of usage.
• ConsumedUnit MUST be of type String.
• ConsumedUnit MUST conform to StringHandling requirements.
• ConsumedUnit SHOULD conform to UnitFormat requirements.
• ConsumedUnit nullability is defined as follows:
  • ConsumedUnit MUST be null when ConsumedQuantity is null.
  • ConsumedUnit MUST NOT be null when ConsumedQuantity is not null.

Service-provider-specified measurement unit indicating how a service provider measures usage of a metered SKU associated with a resource or service.