Lets you slice and explore Azure spending in Cost Management by scope, tag, service or time period.
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In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains Cost analysis in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Cost Management
Azure's service for analysing costs, setting budgets and reporting by tag on resources that already run in Azure; it can't forecast what a migration will cost beforehand.
- Scope
Where an access or policy assignment takes effect. It can be set on a single resource, a resource group, a subscription or a management group, and settings flow down from higher levels.
- Tag
Key-value label on compute (for cost tracking) or on a Unity Catalog securable or column, applied with
SET TAGorSET TAGSand requiringAPPLY TAG. Governed tags restrict allowed keys, values and assigners across the account.