Microsoft Cost Management
Manage your cloud cost with confidence.
Leverage the latest in Azure Copilot to bring you insights, accountability controls, and the ability to remediate when opportunities arise.
Overview
Manage your cloud investment with Microsoft Cost Management
- Track usage, monitor expenses, identify cost anomalies, and forecast your expenditures.
- Create governance policies and increase accountability with budgets and cost allocation.
- Evaluate and take action on personalized recommendations
Features
Optimize your cloud costs
Azure Copilot extends capabilities to Cost Management
Summarize costs, compare usage, and isolate fluctuations so you can focus on creating efficiencies to support your day-to-day operations. Browse the documentation to learn more about Azure Copilot.
Cost analysis
Categorize your cloud costs by resource group, service, location, or tag, or create custom filters to focus on the data that matters to you.
Budgets
Set limits for your cloud spending by specifying time-period, amount, and alert threshold for your budget.
Cost alerts
Stay informed by configuring notifications based on budgets, or use built-in alert rules for common scenarios, such as spending spikes or drops.
Cost allocation
Distribute your cloud costs across different business units, projects, or customers. Categorize your resources and create cost allocation rules to split or move costs between them.
Exports
Create custom reports, perform in-depth analysis, and integrate cost data with other business systems to gain greater insight into your spending and usage patterns.
Security
Embedded security and compliance
34,000
Full-time equivalent engineers dedicated to security initiatives at Microsoft.
15,000
Partners with specialized security expertise.
>100
Compliance certifications, including over 50 specific to global regions and countries.
Pricing
Optimize your spending
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CUSTOMER STORIES
See how customers are optimizing their cloud spending with Cost Management
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
- Microsoft Cost Management helps organizations analyze, monitor, and optimize their Microsoft Cloud costs. Cost Management is available to anyone with access to an Azure billing account, subscription, resource group, or management group.
- Microsoft Cost Management is available for all active Azure offers. While a separate page provides a list of active offers, it doesn’t explicitly indicate Cost Management support for each one.
If you're using an active offer, Cost Management features are available—but support may vary depending on your subscription type and agreement (e.g., Enterprise Agreement, Microsoft Customer Agreement). For full details, check your subscription in the Azure portal or consult your account administrator. - Microsoft Cost Management is available at no additional cost as part of Azure. If you're using Azure through a supported offer—whether via a paid subscription or a free trial—you can access Cost Management features without extra charges.
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