Cover: what amortized means (prepaid commitments like AWS RIs/Savings Plans
and Azure reservations spread across their term), the Billed/Amortized
toggle on Cost Explorer, which providers publish a real amortized figure
(AWS, FOCUS, Azure) vs. which just mirror billed (true for a SaaS
subscription, not a fallback), and — important caveat to state plainly —
that amortized data only starts 2026-08-04 and can’t be backfilled, so older
rows show billed-as-amortized. Also worth a line that budgets/alerts/spend
limits always enforce on billed cost regardless of the toggle, so the number
that triggers a budget alert may differ from what’s on screen if you’re
viewing amortized.
