Manage your cloud investment with Microsoft Cost Management

Azure Cost Management is a comprehensive tool designed to help you manage and optimize your cloud expenses. It provides insights into your spending patterns, helps you allocate costs to different departments or projects, and offers recommendations to reduce costs and improve efficiency.

Features

• **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.