Azure Cost Management Tutorial | Analyzing and reacting to changes in billing

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Understanding costs of your Azure resource is one of the most critical items when driving cloud transformation for your organization. In this episode we will take a look at Azure Cost Management.

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A free, easy to use solution which enables owners, administrators and application teams to analyze and act on billing information.

In this episode I will show you how work with Azure Cost Management including out of the box features, navigation, budgets, alerts and and exports for further analysis.

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Next steps for you after watching the video

1. Azure Cost Management Overview docs

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/cost-management-billing-overview?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5003556

2. Performing quick cost analysis docs

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/costs/quick-acm-cost-analysis?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5003556

3. Create and manage budgets and alerts docs

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/costs/tutorial-acm-create-budgets?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5003556
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/costs/cost-mgt-alerts-monitor-usage-spending?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5003556

4. Managing automated data exports docs

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/costs/tutorial-export-acm-data?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5003556

5. Azure cost management best practices

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/costs/cost-mgt-best-practices?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5003556

6. Choose between Cloudyn and ACM

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/costs/choose-between-azure-cost-management-cloudyn?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5003556

7. Understanding cost manegement data

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/costs/understand-cost-mgt-data?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5003556

8. Assign access to data with RBAC/EA roles

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/costs/assign-access-acm-data?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5003556