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Glossary term

Amortized cost

The cost of an upfront commitment (RI, Savings Plan, CUD) spread across the hours it covers, so each resource shows its true effective daily cost. Not Azure-specific: AWS exposes it via Cost Explorer Amortized / CUR EffectiveCost, GCP via the credit-applied BigQuery export, and FOCUS via EffectiveCost.

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