Microsoft Cost Management
Manage your cloud cost with confidence.
Leverage the latest in Copilot in Azure 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
Microsoft Copilot in Azure (preview) 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 Copilot in Azure preview.
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
Built-in security and compliance
Microsoft has committed to investing $20 billion in cybersecurity over five years.
We employ more than 8,500 security and threat intelligence experts across 77 countries.
Azure has one of the largest compliance certification portfolios in the industry.
Pricing
Optimize your spending
Related products
Our products work better together
Copilot in Azure
Microsoft Cost Management uses Copilot in Azure to provide insights, accountability controls, and the ability to remediate when opportunities arise.
Customer stories
See how customers are optimizing their cloud spending with Cost Management
“Working with Microsoft has been really powerful. Getting access to features that provide cost management and being able to interact directly with the Microsoft team has made a big difference to our ability to get to the right cost place.”
Ian Margetts, Infrastructure Services Lead, ASOS
Resources
Get started with Microsoft 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.
- The following page shows a list of all active offers, If the offer is active, it is supported by Microsoft Cost Management.
- Microsoft Cost Management for Azure is available at no additional cost.
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