Azure Cost Management is a free service that helps you monitor, allocate, and optimize your Azure spending. It provides valuable tools and insights to ensure you’re making the most cost-effective use of your cloud resources.
Key Capabilities
- Understand your bill
View detailed reports that break down your Azure charges by service, resource, and location. You can compare that with estimates in the Pricing calculator and the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculator. - Manage your account and spending
Track historical and current usage, and forecast future costs based on trends. You can then look at factors that can affect the costs in Azure. - Optimize resource use
Get insights and recommendations to eliminate waste, right-size resources, and make the most of reserved instances or hybrid benefits.
What’s Included
- Reporting – Generate detailed cost and usage reports over time.
- Grouping by Tags – Organize and filter your costs by project, department, or cost center using tags.
- Budgets – Set spending thresholds and monitor progress against them.
- Alerting – Receive notifications when your usage or costs exceed defined thresholds.
- Recommendations – Leverage AI-powered suggestions for cost-saving opportunities.
For more, watch our AZ-900 video course, or go back to our AZ-900 Topic List.
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