Updates for AWS retirement

Author: shasulin

articles/cost-management-billing/costs/overview-cost-management.md

@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ Everything up to this point makes up the billing process where charges are final
 
 - The [anomaly detection](../understand/analyze-unexpected-charges.md) model identifies anomalies daily based on normalized usage (not rated usage).
 - The cost allocation engine applies tag inheritance and [splits shared costs](allocate-costs.md).
-- AWS cost and usage reports are pulled based on any [connectors for AWS](aws-integration-manage.md) you may have configured.
 - Azure Advisor cost recommendations are pulled in to enable cost savings insights for subscriptions and resource groups.
 - Cost alerts are sent out for [budgets](tutorial-acm-create-budgets.md), [anomalies](../understand/analyze-unexpected-charges.md#create-an-anomaly-alert), [scheduled alerts](save-share-views.md#subscribe-to-scheduled-alerts), and more based on the configured settings.
 
@@ -75,12 +74,11 @@ During your cloud journey, there are many tools available to help you understand
 
 ## Report on and analyze costs
 
-Cost Management and Billing include several tools to help you understand, report on, and analyze your invoiced Microsoft Cloud and AWS costs.
+Cost Management and Billing include several tools to help you understand, report on, and analyze your invoiced Microsoft Cloud costs.
 
 - [**Cost analysis**](quick-acm-cost-analysis.md) is a tool for ad-hoc cost exploration. Get quick answers with lightweight insights and analytics.
 **Power BI** is an advanced solution to build more extensive dashboards and complex reports or combine costs with other data. Power BI is available for billing accounts and billing profiles.
 - [**Exports and the Cost Details API**](../automate/usage-details-best-practices.md) enable you to integrate cost details into external systems or business processes.
-- **Connectors for AWS** enable you to ingest your AWS cost details into Azure to facilitate managing Azure and AWS costs together. After configured, the connector also enables other capabilities, like budget and scheduled alerts.
 
 For more information, see [Get started with reporting](reporting-get-started.md).
 

articles/cost-management-billing/costs/quick-create-budget-bicep.md

@@ -39,9 +39,6 @@ Budgets are supported for the following types of Azure account types and scopes:
     - Billing profile
     - Invoice section
     - Customer
-- AWS scopes
-    - External account
-    - External subscription
 
 To view budgets, you need at least read access for your Azure account.
 

articles/cost-management-billing/costs/quick-create-budget-template.md

@@ -47,11 +47,7 @@ Budgets are supported for the following types of Azure account types and scopes:
     - Billing profile
     - Invoice section
     - Customer
-- AWS scopes
-    - External account
-    - External subscription
-        > [!NOTE]
-        > The Connector for AWS in the Cost Management service retires on March 31, 2025. Users should consider alternative solutions for AWS cost management reporting. On March 31, 2024, Azure will disable the ability to add new Connectors for AWS for all customers. For more information, see [Retire your Amazon Web Services (AWS) connector](retire-aws-connector.md).
+
 To view budgets, you need at least read access for your Azure account.
 
 For Azure EA subscriptions, you must have read access to view budgets. To create and manage budgets, you must have contributor permission.

articles/cost-management-billing/costs/reporting-get-started.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
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 title: Get started with Cost Management reporting - Azure
-description: This article helps you to get started with Cost Management to understand, report on, and analyze your invoiced Microsoft Cloud and AWS costs.
+description: This article helps you to get started with Cost Management to understand, report on, and analyze your invoiced Microsoft Cloud costs.
 author: shasulin
 ms.author: shasulin
 ms.date: 01/07/2025
@@ -12,10 +12,7 @@ ms.reviewer: shasulin
 
 # Get started with Cost Management reporting
 
-Cost Management includes several tools to help you understand, report on, and analyze your invoiced Microsoft Cloud and AWS costs. The following sections describe the major reporting components.
-
-> [!NOTE]
-> The Connector for AWS in the Cost Management service retires on March 31, 2025. Users should consider alternative solutions for AWS cost management reporting. On March 31, 2024, Azure will disable the ability to add new Connectors for AWS for all customers. For more information, see [Retire your Amazon Web Services (AWS) connector](retire-aws-connector.md).
+Cost Management includes several tools to help you understand, report on, and analyze your invoiced Microsoft Cloud costs. The following sections describe the major reporting components.
 
 ## Cost analysis
 

articles/cost-management-billing/costs/tutorial-acm-create-budgets.md

@@ -55,12 +55,6 @@ Budgets are supported for the following types of Azure account types and scopes:
     - Billing profile
     - Invoice section
     - Customer
-- AWS scopes
-    - External account
-    - External subscription
-
-> [!NOTE]
-> The Connector for AWS in the Cost Management service retires on March 31, 2025. Users should consider alternative solutions for AWS cost management reporting. On March 31, 2024, Azure will disable the ability to add new Connectors for AWS for all customers. For more information, see [Retire your Amazon Web Services (AWS) connector](retire-aws-connector.md).
 
 To view budgets, you need at least read access for your Azure account.
 
@@ -134,15 +128,6 @@ After you create a budget, it appears in cost analysis. Viewing your budget agai
 
 In the preceding example, you created a budget for a subscription. You can also create a budget for a resource group. If you want to create a budget for a resource group, navigate to **Cost Management + Billing** > **Subscriptions** > select a subscription > **Resource groups** > select a resource group > **Budgets** > and then **Add** a budget.
 
-### Create a budget for combined Azure and AWS costs
-
-You can group your Azure and AWS costs together by assigning a management group to your connector along with its consolidated and linked accounts. Assign your Azure subscriptions to the same management group. Then create a budget for the combined costs.
-
-1. In Cost Management, select **Budgets**.
-1. Select **Add**.
-1. Select **Change scope** and then select the management group.
-1. Continue creating the budget until complete.
-
 ## Costs in budget evaluations
 
 Budget cost evaluations now include reserved instance and purchase data. If the charges apply to you, then you might receive alerts as charges are incorporated into your evaluations. Sign in to the [Azure portal](https://portal.azure.com) to verify that budget thresholds are properly configured to account for the new costs. Your Azure billed charges aren't changed. Budgets now evaluate against a more complete set of your costs. If the charges don't apply to you, then your budget behavior remains unchanged.

articles/cost-management-billing/costs/understand-work-scopes.md

@@ -246,21 +246,6 @@ The following tables show how Cost Management features can be utilized by each r
 | **Exports** | Create, Read, Update, Delete | Create, Read, Update, Delete | Create, Read, Update, Delete | Create, Read, Update, Delete |
 | **Cost Allocation Rules** | N/A – only applicable to Billing Account | N/A – only applicable to Billing Account | N/A – only applicable to Billing Account | N/A – only applicable to Billing Account |
 
-## AWS scopes
-
-> [!NOTE]
-> The Connector for AWS in the Cost Management service retires on March 31, 2025. Users should consider alternative solutions for AWS cost management reporting. On March 31, 2024, Azure will disable the ability to add new Connectors for AWS for all customers. For more information, see [Retire your Amazon Web Services (AWS) connector](retire-aws-connector.md).
-
-After AWS integration is complete, see [setup and configure AWS integration](aws-integration-set-up-configure.md). The following scopes are available:
-
-- **External Billing account** - Represents a customer agreement with a third-party vendor. It's similar to the EA billing account.
-
-    Resource type: `Microsoft.CostManagement/externalBillingAccounts`
-
-- **External subscription** - Represents a customer operational account with a third-party vendor. It's similar to an Azure subscription.
-
-    Resource type: `Microsoft.CostManagement/externalSubscriptions`
-
 ## Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) scopes
 
 The following scopes are supported for CSPs with customers on a Microsoft Customer Agreement: