Monitor, allocate, and optimize cloud costs with transparency, accuracy, and efficiency
Better manage cloud spend by managing costs across all your clouds with a single, unified view, and use cost allocation to distribute costs across your org. Microsoft Cost Management is available to Azure customers and managed service providers at no additional cost.
Cost Management for Azure
The following Cost Management features are provided in the Azure portal for managing Azure spend at no additional cost.
Reporting | Report on cost and usage |
Data enrichment | Categorise by resource tags |
Budgets | Create and manage cost and usage budgets |
Alerting | Create alerts on cost and usage budgets |
Recommendations | Eliminate idle cloud resources Right-size cloud resources |
Price | Free for Azure |
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