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

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. 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.

Next steps for you after watching the video
1. Azure Cost Management Overview docs
2. Performing quick cost analysis docs
3. Create and manage budgets and alerts docs
4. Managing automated data exports docs
5. Azure cost management best practices ?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5003556
6. Choose between Cloudyn and ACM
7. Understanding cost manegement data
8. Assign access to data with RBAC/EA roles

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[magnusingjer]

You are, without any doubt, the best instructor for cloud services on the whole internet. You manage to make the material suitable for every skill level. Especially useful for those of us who are generally new to Cloud concepts. Keep up the excellent work Adam!

[bonkers_dave]

Hi Adam, love your work. I'm studying for AZ-203/204 certification test, perhaps you could use certification "skills measured" for inspiration on what topics to cover. I like that you move at a good pace, only occasionally you jump passed something so quickly I have to back up several times to see what you clicked on. I follow along and do everything you do, and the knowledge really sticks that way. I don't mind pausing the video to catch up from time to time, but I don't like having to go back a couple of times because your mouse was in turbo mode and just clicked something on the way by. Keep up the great work!

[databasetales]

A great introduction, I am also studying for the Azure certification this helps explain some things.

[tonywinter]

A very good overview and introduction to cost management. Thank you very much for your effort Adam. Keep on going!!!

[abhijitk]

Hello Adam, Thanks for your great work. I have been following your tutorials from last few months and those are really insightful. However I recently observed that you have prepared playlists for the videos and few videos are repeated in other playlists as well or should not be part of topic of that playlist. Just to keep you informed about this, so that you can organize your contents in proper order in playlists. Anyways I am proud subscriber of your youtube videos. Thanks again.

[julianwaite]

Excellent video Adam, much appreciated, thanks :)

[samdharma]

Wow - you are very good at covering these at the right level. Thanks

[krepko]

Love it! Very well done as usual. Thanks.

[Famus]

Cześć Adam, Super materiał, podoba mi się też sposób w jaki prezentujesz temat. Jednak mam pytanie czy mogę ustawić alert w budżecie który wyłączy usługę po przekroczeniu limitu $$$?

[vladvdn]

Hi Adam, do you have any idea how can we fetch the -default budget from every subscription using powershell?

[rayv]

Hi Adam, wonderful video and thanks for sharing your knowledge. I was trying to implement LogicApp to use Azure consumption APIs referring to one of your blogs and i got stuck at a point where 'copy blob' has got limitation of 50MB and I am not sure how to overcome that issue. Do you have any suggestions?

[rejectedideas]

So cost management can be used even if you don't have EA right?

[AmitSingh-mrcd]

Thanks a lot for explaining in details, Do we have option to automate the billing alerting for new subscription .. like CLI or PowerShell that can be triggered with supported event and setup the billing alert by picking the Owner mail id from Tag ..

[efexzium]

What are the other options for budget alerts ? Can u do a video on them ?

[abrahamflores]

Hi Adam, can you explain the difference between Actual cost and Amortized cost? Thank you

[luciosantos]

Hi, could you do an example about how create a customized chart using Rest API ? Regards

[freddylaing]

How do I use the API to pull data from Azure Cost Management to Power BI

[arunvarmadasari]

Thanks for the video Adam, Need a quick help, when i create and export the reports into my blob storage it is creating a monthly directory every month automatically, how to avoid that monthly directory and have all the files in one directory.

[akishaha]

How can we get the slides from your video ? Very informative content which can be referred all the time.

[prabhatjaiswal]

There is a way to export the recommendation report to reduce cost of a column where we can see how to reduce the cost and how to prepare that report