Azure Cost Management
A tool to monitor, allocate, and optimize Azure spending with budgets and alerts.
Azure Cost Management is a built-in service that gives organizations visibility into actual spending across subscriptions, resource groups, and individual resources. Teams can set budgets with threshold-based alerts so stakeholders are notified before costs exceed a defined limit, and cost-analysis views break spending down by tag, location, or service. A key AZ-900 distinction is that Cost Management works on real, incurred charges, whereas the Pricing Calculator produces hypothetical estimates before any resources are deployed. It also integrates with Azure Advisor, surfacing actions such as rightsizing underutilized virtual machines, supporting the Cost Optimization pillar of the Azure Well-Architected Framework.
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