3.1.54 Service Provider Name

Service Provider Name is the name of the entity that provides the resources or services available for usage or purchase. These services can be built on top of infrastructure provided by a Host Provider, offered as fully integrated solutions, or include complementary offerings such as support, licensing, or consulting. It is commonly used for cost analysis and reporting scenarios.

Notes:

• In marketplace scenarios, the Service Provider represents the seller rather than the marketplace operator, as the marketplace operator merely provides a purchasing mechanism and does not itself provide the resources or services available for usage or purchase.
• In reseller scenarios, if the reseller is selling resource or services that are white-labeled from another provider, the Service Provider is the reseller. In all other cases the Service Provider is the entity that produced the resources or services.

ServiceProviderName adheres to the following requirements:

• ServiceProviderName MUST be present in a Cost and Usage FOCUS dataset.
• ServiceProviderName MUST be of type String.
• ServiceProviderName MUST conform to StringHandling requirements.
• ServiceProviderName MUST NOT be null.

See Appendix: Participating Entity Identification Examples section for examples of Service Provider Name values across various use case scenarios.

The name of the entity that made the resources or services available for purchase or consumption.