Manage costs and billing for your Azure resources

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05/22/2024

Cost management is the process of effectively planning and controlling costs involved in your business. Cost management tasks are typically performed by finance, management, and application teams. Microsoft Cost Management can help you plan with cost in mind. It can also help you to analyze costs effectively and take action to optimize cloud spending.

For more information about integrating cloud cost management processes throughout your organization, see the Cloud Adoption Framework article on how to track costs across business units, environments, or projects.

Manage your costs with Microsoft Cost Management

Microsoft Cost Management provides a few ways to help you predict and manage costs:

Analyze cloud costs helps you explore and analyze your costs. You can view aggregated cost for your account or view accumulated costs over time.
Monitor with budgets allows you to create a budget and then configure alerts to warn you when you're close to exceeding it.
Optimize with recommendations helps identify idle and underused resources so you can take action to reduce waste.
Manage invoices and payments gives you visibility to your cloud investment.

Predict and manage costs

Go to Cost Management + Billing.
Select Cost Management.
Explore the features that help to analyze and optimize cloud costs.

Manage invoices and payment methods

Go to Cost Management + Billing.
Select Invoices or Payment methods from the Billing section in the left pane.

Billing and subscription support

We offer 24-hour access every day for billing and subscription support to Azure customers. If you need assistance to understand Azure usage, create a support request.

Create a support request

To submit a new support request:

Go to Help + support.
Select New support request.

View a support request

To view your support requests and their status:

Go to Help + support.
Select All support requests.

Learn more

To learn more, see:

Actions

Predict and manage costs:

Go to Cost Management + Billing.
Select Cost Management.

Manage invoices and payment methods:

Go to Cost Management + Billing.
Select Invoices or Payment methods from the Billing section in the left pane.

Billing and subscription support:

We offer 24-hour access every day for billing and subscription support to Azure customers. If you need assistance to understand Azure usage, create a support request.

Create a support request: