Azure Cost Management
Azure Cost Management helps monitor, allocate, and optimize cloud spending across Azure resources and services. · Azure · Analytics
Overview
Azure Cost Management provides free, built-in tools for tracking, analyzing, and optimizing Azure cloud spending, at no additional cost for Azure customers and managed service providers.
Good fit
Use when you need to monitor, analyze, and control Azure cloud costs for your organization or projects.
- Azure users
- cloud cost managers
- finance teams
Not a fit
Avoid if you require deep multi-cloud analytics for non-Azure clouds, since those connectors are billed separately.
- multi-cloud only
- non-Azure environments
Quickstart · 4 steps
- Sign in to the Azure portal.
- Navigate to 'Cost Management + Billing'.
- Select 'Cost Management' and choose your subscription.
- Review cost analysis and set up budgets or alerts as needed.
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