Merge pull request #284107 from bandersmsft/usage-details-fields

MCM - Update usage-details-fields for team

Author: prmerger-automator[bot]

articles/cost-management-billing/automate/understand-usage-details-fields.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ titleSuffix: Microsoft Cost Management
 description: This article describes the fields in the usage data files.
 author: bandersmsft
 ms.author: banders
-ms.date: 07/12/2024
+ms.date: 08/08/2024
 ms.topic: conceptual
 ms.service: cost-management-billing
 ms.subservice: cost-management
@@ -69,11 +69,11 @@ MPA accounts have all MCA terms, in addition to the MPA terms, as described in t
 | InvoiceSectionId¹ | EA, MCA | Unique identifier for the EA department or MCA invoice section. |
 | InvoiceSectionName | EA, MCA | Name of the EA department or MCA invoice section. |
 | IsAzureCreditEligible | All | Indicates if the charge is eligible to be paid for using Azure credits (Values: `True` or `False`). |
-| Location | MCA | Normalized location of the resource, if different resource locations are configured for the same regions. Purchases and Marketplace usage might be shown as blank or `unassigned`. |
+| Location | MCA | The normalized location used to resolve inconsistencies in region names sent by different Azure Resource Providers (RPs). The normalized location is based strictly on the resource location sent by RPs in usage data and is programmatically normalized to mitigate inconsistencies. Purchases and Marketplace usage might be shown as blank or unassigned. For example, `US East`. |
 | MeterCategory | All | Name of the classification category for the meter. For example, _Cloud services_ and _Networking_. Purchases and Marketplace usage might be shown as blank or `unassigned`. |
 | MeterId¹ | All | The unique identifier for the meter. |
 | MeterName | All | The name of the meter. Purchases and Marketplace usage might be shown as blank or `unassigned`.|
-| MeterRegion | All | Name of the datacenter location for services priced based on location. See `Location`. |
+| MeterRegion | All | The name of the Azure region associated with the meter. It generally aligns with the resource location, except for certain global meters that are shared across regions. In such cases, the meter region indicates the primary region of the meter.<br>**Note**: The meter is used to track the usage of specific services or resources, mainly for billing purposes. Each Azure service, resource, and region have its own billing meter ID that precisely reflects how its consumption and price are calculated. |
 | MeterSubCategory | All | Name of the meter subclassification category. Purchases and Marketplace usage might be shown as blank or `unassigned`.|
 | OfferId¹ | EA, pay-as-you-go | Name of the Azure offer, which is the type of Azure subscription that you have. For more information, see supported [Microsoft Azure offer details](https://azure.microsoft.com/support/legal/offer-details/). |
 | pay-as-you-goPrice² ³| All | The market price, also referred to as retail or list price, for a given product or service. For more information, see [Pricing behavior in cost details](automation-ingest-usage-details-overview.md#pricing-behavior-in-cost-and-usage-details). |
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ MPA accounts have all MCA terms, in addition to the MPA terms, as described in t
 | ReservationName | EA, MCA | Name of the purchased reservation instance. |
 | ResourceGroup | All | Name of the [resource group](../../azure-resource-manager/management/overview.md) the resource is in. Not all charges come from resources deployed to resource groups. Charges that don't have a resource group are shown as null or empty, **Others**, or **Not applicable**. |
 | ResourceId¹ | All | Unique identifier of the [Azure Resource Manager](/rest/api/resources/resources) resource. |
-| ResourceLocation¹  | All | Datacenter location where the resource is running. See `Location`. |
+| ResourceLocation¹  | All | The Azure region where the resource is deployed, also referred to as the datacenter location where the resource is running. For an example using Virtual Machines, see [What's the difference between MeterRegion and ResourceLocation](../../virtual-machines/vm-usage.md#what-is-the-difference-between-meter-region-and-resource-location). |
 | ResourceName | EA, pay-as-you-go | Name of the resource. Not all charges come from deployed resources. Charges that don't have a resource type are shown as null/empty, **Others** , or **Not applicable**. |
 | ResourceType | MCA | Type of resource instance. Not all charges come from deployed resources. Charges that don't have a resource type are shown as null/empty, **Others** , or **Not applicable**. |
 | RoundingAdjustment | EA, MCA | Rounding adjustment represents the quantization that occurs during cost calculation. When the calculated costs are converted to the invoiced total, small rounding errors can occur. The rounding errors are represented as `rounding adjustment` to ensure that the costs shown in Cost Management align to the invoice. For more information, see [Rounding adjustment details](#rounding-adjustment-details).  |