Azure Cost Management

Azure Cost Management

Azure Cost Management and optimization skills. Provides recommendations, budget management, exports, alerts, and commitment tracking capabilities.

Domain Knowledge

Cost Optimization

Azure Advisor Recommendations

az advisor recommendation list --category Cost --output table

Suppression: Up to 90-day TTL, bulk suppression via management groups.

For detailed documentation: references/azure-advisor.md

Savings plans and reservations

Benefit Recommendations API for:

• Savings plan purchase recommendations (up to 65% savings)
• Reservation recommendations (up to 72% savings)
• Coverage analysis and utilization monitoring
• Decision framework: when to use which commitment type

For detailed documentation:

• references/azure-savings-plans.md — savings plan analysis and script
• references/azure-reservations.md — reserved instance analysis
• references/azure-commitment-discount-decision.md — decision framework

Budget & Alerts

Budgets

• Up to 5 notifications per budget
• Action Groups at Subscription/Resource Group scope only
• Threshold types: Actual, Forecasted

az consumption budget list --output table

For detailed documentation: references/azure-budgets.md

Anomaly Alerts

Enterprise-scale deployment with pagination for large environments.

For detailed documentation: references/azure-anomaly-alerts.md

Cost Exports

FOCUS format exports to storage accounts with backfill support.

For detailed documentation: references/azure-cost-exports.md

Commitment Tracking

Azure Credits (Prepayment)

Track EA/MCA credit balances, expiration dates, consumption history.

For detailed documentation: references/azure-credits.md

MACC (Azure Consumption Commitment)

Track MACC balance, decrements, milestone progress, eligible spend.

For detailed documentation: references/azure-macc.md

Reference documentation

• Optimization: references/azure-advisor.md, references/azure-savings-plans.md, references/azure-reservations.md
• Decision framework: references/azure-commitment-discount-decision.md
• Budgets and alerts: references/azure-budgets.md, references/azure-anomaly-alerts.md, references/azure-cost-exports.md
• Commitments: references/azure-credits.md, references/azure-macc.md Load the appropriate reference file when detailed workflows, API examples, or troubleshooting are needed.

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