Cost management

What it is

Cost management is the practice of monitoring, analyzing, and controlling Azure spending. It links to the dedicated Azure Cost Management + Billing service (see azure-cost-management).

Why it exists

Cloud spend can drift without guardrails. Cost management gives admins and finance visibility (cost analysis), control (budgets + alerts), and forecasting so spend stays predictable.

Key ideas

• Cost analysis — filter spend by subscription/resource group/resource/tag.
• Budgets & alerts — threshold + notification when exceeded.
• Tags drive meaningful cost grouping.
• This note is an alias/landing for the full azure-cost-management entry.

Related

azure-cost-management · resource-tags · subscription

📘 Source: Microsoft Learn — Cost Management