The document discusses Azure Cost Management, which allows organizations to monitor and optimize their cloud spending on Azure and AWS. It highlights features such as usage tracking, cost estimation tools, and the importance of financial accountability in cloud services, noting the challenges many organizations face with visibility and spending control. Additionally, it provides links to resources for further assessment and management of cloud costs.

1. AZURE
COST
MANAGEMENT
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2. AZURE COST MANAGEMENT
 Monitor cloud spending
 Increase organisational accountability
 Optimise cloud efficiency
 Manage your Azure and AWS spending
 Free for Azure | 1% of your AWS monthly bill

4. AZURE COST MANAGEMENT
 Includes usage of Azure services and third-party Azure Marketplace apps
 Purchases including reservations
 All costs are based on your negotiated prices
 Data is refreshed every four hours

5. AZURE COST MANAGEMENT
 Cost Management API
 Azure Consumption Insights and Cost Management Connector in Power BI
 Best practices
 Assessment: https://fusionassessment.azurewebsites.net/

6. AZURE CONSUMPTION API
 Enterprise and Web Direct Customers
 Reservation Details
 Reservation Summaries
 Marketplace Charges
 Usage Details
 Reservation Recommendations
Azure Consumption API provide access to:
 Enterprise Customers Only
 Price sheet
 Budgets
 Forecasts
 Balances
 Tags
 Cost Tags

7. CONNECT TO AZURE CONSUMPTION INSIGHTS

9. OPTIMIZE YOUR CLOUD INVESTMENT WITH ACM
 Methodology: Visibility – Accountability – Optimisation
 Cost estimation: Azure Price Calculator and Azure Migrate
 FinOps: Manage your costs – Tag resources – Budgets

10. of CIO’s surveyed acknowledge
overspending their cloud budgets
85%
say cost management is a daily worry and have not done enough to fix it57%
either have no visibility into cloud costs, or rely on spreadsheets, manual tracking or cloud
vendor portals82%
of finance respondents state they are alerted to overspend only after it’s too late68%

11. GET STARTED!
https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cost-management-billing/
https://docs.microsoft.com/rest/api/consumption/
https://fusionassessment.azurewebsites.net/