Microsoft Cost Management

Monitor, allocate, and optimize cloud costs with transparency, accuracy, and efficiency using Microsoft Cost Management.

Overview

Cost Management + Billing is a suite of tools provided by Microsoft that help you analyze, manage, and optimize the costs of your workloads. Using the suite helps ensure that your organization is taking advantage of the benefits provided by the cloud.

Key Resources

Homepage: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cost-management-billing/
Pricing: https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/cost-management/
SLA: https://azure.microsoft.com/support/legal/sla/cost-management/
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News

Date News
5/6/2025
Table of Contents: What is Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE)? Why Moving CAE to Cloud? Cloud vs. On-Premises What Makes Azure Special for CAE Workloads? What Makes Azure Stand out Among Public...
5/2/2025
Enhanced Cost Management exports are now generally available across all Azure regions and clouds.This release improves how customers automate and analyze cost and usage data. Key enhancements...
5/1/2025
By June, we introduce improvements that will provide more detailed and accurate information on reservations (RIs), Azure Saving Plans (ASP), and 3rd party purchases from the Azure Marketplace....
4/30/2025
We're always looking for ways to learn more about your challenges and how Microsoft Cost Management can help you better understand where you're accruing costs in the cloud, identify and prevent...
4/29/2025
FSI customers such as insurance companies and banks rely on their vast amounts of data to provide sometimes hundreds of individual products to their customers. From assessing product suitability,...
3/12/2025
Whether you’re a new student, a thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints, and you need to know what you’re spending, where it’s being spent, and how to plan for...
2/12/2025
We're always looking for ways to learn more about your challenges and how Microsoft Cost Management can help you. The post Microsoft Cost Management updates—February 2025 appeared first on...
1/13/2025
  In this article, we'll showcase the new community site for Azure API management https://aka.ms/apimlove. This site is a one-stop shop for all things related to Azure API management, including...
12/18/2024
Introduction  The year 2024 was all about accelerating advancements in AI technologies with improved and much more powerful language models, agent eco-systems and accompanying tools to build...
12/10/2024
Solutions idea This solution series shows some examples of how Azure OpenAI and its LLM models can be used on Operations and FinOps issues. With a view to the use of models linked to the...
11/27/2024
At Microsoft Ignite, we announced key product updates to enable your FinOps journey. The post Microsoft Cost Management updates—November 2024 appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
10/31/2024
We're always looking for ways to learn more about your challenges and how Microsoft Cost Management can help you better understand where you're accruing costs in the cloud, identify and prevent...
9/4/2024
This Azure Architecture Blog was written in conjunction with Isaac Gritz, Senior Solutions Architect, at Databricks.   The Data Intelligence End-to-End Architecture provides a scalable, secure...
8/15/2024
We're always looking for ways to learn more about your challenges and how Microsoft Cost Management can help you better understand where you're accruing costs in the cloud, identify and prevent...
7/31/2024
Mastering your AI adoption: Essentials to building, operating and optimizing genAI workloads on Azure As the demand for scalable, efficient AI cloud solutions grows, many organizations are...
7/22/2024
We're always looking for ways to learn more about your challenges and how Microsoft Cost Management can help you better understand where you're accruing costs in the cloud, identify and prevent...
5/21/2024
By -- Asir Selvasingh, Microsoft, and Adib Saikali, VMware by Broadcom.   You can now use Azure Spring Apps to effectively run Spring Batch applications with adaptive cost control. You only pay...