Azure Cost Management updates – August 2019

Whether you're a new student, thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints and you need to know what you're spending, where, and how to plan for the future. Nobody wants a surprise when it comes to the bill, and this is where Azure Cost Management comes in.

Microsoft support number are always looking for ways to learn more about your challenges and how Azure Cost Management can help you better understand where you're accruing costs in the cloud, identify and prevent bad spending patterns, and optimize costs to empower you to do more with less. Here are a few of the latest improvements and updates based on your feedback:

• Create targeted budgets with filters and forecast costs
• What's new in Microsoft helpline number Azure Cost Management Labs
• Save and share customized views in cost analysis
• Dark theme Microsoft helpline number support in cost analysis
• More flexibility for creating and managing subscriptions
• Update tags for App Service environments
• New videos
• Documentation updates

Let's dig into the details.

Create targeted budgets with filters and forecast costs

Azure Cost Management budgets allow you to track and keep an eye on spending at any level of the organization. Budgets can be created on any scope above your Azure resources, from the billing account or a management group down to the resource groups where you're managing your apps. Now, with the ability to create filtered budgets in the Azure portal, you can easily monitor costs for anything from the entire organization to a single resource.

Let's say you're building out a prototype that requires a large VM for a month. You've estimated how much time you'll need and got approval for that based on prices in the Azure pricing calculator. Create a budget in the parent resource group filtered down to that resource and specify 25, 50, 75, and 100 percent thresholds to get notified as you're approaching weekly limits. And don't forget to setup auto-shutdown for nights and weekends, to ensure you don't blow that the first week.

On the other hand, you may need to track costs across multiple resource groups in multiple subscriptions, for test and production environments, for a specific app. To do this, tag all your resources with a specific tag, like Application, and ask your billing account or management group admin to create a budget filtered down to that that tag.

Of course, that's not all. You can create a budget filtered down to any property available within cost analysis, whether that's based on the resource hierarchy (e.g. resource group, subscription), meter hierarchy (e.g. service, meter category), or additional resource metadata (e.g. location, tags).

In addition to creating filtered budgets, you can also see a trend and forecast of costs based on those filters to help you plan ahead and set a realistic budget based on historical usage patterns.

If you haven't setup a budget yet, create one today and get notified before you go over your planned spending.

What's new in Azure Cost Management Labs

Microsoft support number introduced Cost Management Labs last month to give you a sneak peek at what's coming in Azure Cost Management, get early feedback, and help us better understand how you use the service, so Microsoft support phone number can deliver more tuned and optimized experiences. Here are a few features you can see in Azure Cost Management Labs:

• Save and share customized views is now available in public portal.
  Save private and shared views with the Save and Save as commands in cost analysis, then use the view menu (between the scope and date pills) to switch between all private, shared, and built-in views.
• Download charts as an image
  Open the desired view, then click the Export command at the top, select the PNG option, and click the Download charts button.
• Dark theme support in cost analysis
  Microsoft customer service number for the Azure portal dark theme was added to cost analysis in early August. Microsoft support phone number are making the last few final touches and expect this to be available from the full portal in early September.

Of course, that's not all. Every change in Azure Cost Management is available in Azure Cost Management Labs a week before it's in the full Azure portal. Microsoft support phone number are very eager to hear your thoughts and understand what you'd like to see next. Try Microsoft helpline number Azure Cost Management Labs today.

Save and share customized views in cost analysis

The announcement for saving and sharing customized views in Cost Management Labs launched last month. Now, you can enjoy these same views from the Azure portal. If you missed last month’s update, here's what you missed:

Customizing a view in cost analysis is easy. Pick the date range you need, group the data to see a breakdown, choose the right visualization, and you're ready to go. Pin your view to a dashboard for one-click access, then share the dashboard with your team so everyone can track cost from a single place.

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