Here we are in the Azure portal, and this
is the Cost Management + Billing tool.
Let's take a look. In the billing section
you can navigate to your subscription,
like this one here. This is the same
screen that you'd see if you would
navigate through your subscription in any
other way. And here I can enable my
spending limit for this subscription. This
is different from a budget. If I reach the
spending limit, all my services in this
subscription will be stopped. And if I
reach a budget limit, I'll just get a
notification. Okay. Also in the building
section are my invoices. I can see all of
my invoices and download them and my usage
details, if I want. Additionally, I can
see my billing address and my tax ID, as
well and update that information. And
finally, in the billing section I can see
and manage my payment options, which are
the credit cards that I use to pay for
this Azure account. All right, let's go to
Cost Management. The first thing I'll do
here is changed my scope to another
subscription, and see how I can also
change the scope to a resource group. This
is what I'll use Cost Management for.
Okay, that's it. So here it starts with
cost analysis. This provides a default
view of the forecast for my subscription
and also a breakdown of costs by service
names, locations, and resource groups,
which is already very useful. This is just
one of the built‑in views. You can choose
other views, or you can create your own
custom views. You can choose your data by
selecting a timeframe for it and apply
additional filters. These can be anything
like location or a tag that you apply to
them. Tags are things that you can apply
to resources, resource groups, and
anything in Azure, really, This helps you
to create reports like this cost report.
Another thing that Cost Management can do
is budgets. Let's take a look, and let's
create a new budget here. The default
scope is the subscription that we chose
earlier, and I can also narrow that down
by applying filters, like a resource
group. So this budget will apply to a
resource group. Now for the details. I'll
give it a name first, and I'll leave this
as a monthly budget, so this resets every
month. I'll leave the dates as they are.
And now for the amount, I'll take the
recommendation of €14 per month. Okay,
let's go to the next page. Here I can
create an alert for the budget. So when I
reach 10% of the budget, I want this alert
to go off. I can assign it to an action
group, which are groups that define
certain actions, like calling an Azure
function. And I want this alert to be sent
to my email address. This one here. Okay,
and create the budget and alert. Let's
take a look at alerts. Here I can see if
any alerts fired and which ones. In the
last 30 days, no alerts went off. Cool.
What else? I can configure Cost Management
things like budgets and more. Also, I can
configure it to export billing data on a
schedule to Azure storage. And finally, I
can connect Amazon Web Services to Cost
Management so that I can see all my costs
in one portal. Cool, right? And this might
be extended with more cloud provider connectors in the future