Cost Management + Billing documentation

Microsoft Cost Management helps you analyze, monitor, and optimize your Microsoft Cloud costs; understand and pay your bill; and manage your billing account and subscriptions.

Overview

What is Cost Management and Billing?

Overview

What are reservations?

Overview

What are savings plans?

Reference

Start optimizing costs today

What's new

What's new

Concept

Costs included in Cost Management

Concept

Understand and work with scopes

Concept

Cost Management best practices

Cost Management

Pricing + estimation

• Pricing calculator
• TCO calculator
• Azure Migrate

Reporting + analytics

• Overview
• Start analyzing costs
• Analyze unexpected charges
• Use Cost analysis for common tasks
• Connect with Power BI

Monitoring

• Use cost alerts
• Create a budget
• Configure anomaly alerts
• Reservation utilization alerts
• Subscribe to scheduled alerts

Optimization

• Act on recommendations
• Save with savings plans
• Save with reservations
• Manage Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server

Cost allocation

• Enable tag inheritance
• Split shared costs

Automation + extensibility

• Overview
• Choose a cost details solution
• Automation for partners

Billing + subscriptions

Azure billing and subscription management documentation

Manage your account

• Get started with Microsoft Customer Agreement
• View billing accounts
• Change credit card

Manage your subscription

• Create an additional subscription
• Change administrator

Access + permissions

• Assign access to cost data
• Microsoft Customer Agreement roles
• Enterprise Agreement roles

Review your bill

• Review your individual account bill
• Review your Microsoft Customer Agreement bill
• Review your Enterprise Agreement bill

Downloads + payments

• Download your invoice
• Download your tax documents
• Download your usage and charges
• Pay your bill
• Pay by wire transfer

Learn more

• Usage terms explained
• Microsoft Customer Agreement usage terms
• Invoice terms explained
• Microsoft Customer Agreement invoice terms
• Learn at your own pace

Training

Cost Management basics

• Intro to Cost Management
• Plan and manage costs
• Analyze costs and create budgets
• Cost management for partners
• Cost Management YouTube channel

Cost optimization

• Get started with Azure Advisor
• Optimize costs with Power BI
• Well-Architected Framework
• Save money with savings plans
• Save money with reservations

Optimize services

• Azure Kubernetes Service
• Azure Virtual Desktop
• Azure Disk Storage
• Azure Blob Storage