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articles/cost-management-billing/costs/cost-mgt-best-practices.md

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description: This article helps get the most value out of your cloud investments, reduce your costs, and evaluate where your money is being spent.
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# How to optimize your cloud investment with Azure Cost Management
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Azure Cost Management gives you the tools to plan for, analyze and reduce your spending to maximize your cloud investment. This document provides you with a methodical approach to cost management and highlights the tools available to you as you address your organizations cost challenges. Azure makes it easy to build and deploy cloud solutions. However, it's important that those solutions are optimized to minimize the cost to your organization. Following the principles outlined in this document and using our tools will help to make sure your organization is prepared for success.
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Azure Cost Management gives you the tools to plan for, analyze and reduce your spending to maximize your cloud investment. This document provides you with a methodical approach to cost management and highlights the tools available to you as you address your organization's cost challenges. Azure makes it easy to build and deploy cloud solutions. However, it's important that those solutions are optimized to minimize the cost to your organization. Following the principles outlined in this document and using our tools will help to make sure your organization is prepared for success.
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## Methodology
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Organize your resources with cost in mind. As you create subscriptions and resource groups, think about the teams that are responsible for associated costs. Make sure your reporting keeps your organization in mind. Subscriptions and resource groups provide good buckets to organize and attribute spending across your organization. Tags provide a good way to attribute cost. You can use tags as a filter. And you can use them to group by when you analyze data and investigate costs. Enterprise Agreement customers can also create departments and place subscriptions under them. Cost-based organization in Azure helps keep the relevant people in your organization accountable for reducing their team's spending.
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Watch the video [How to review tag policies with Azure Cost Management](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHQYcYGKuyw) to understand the tools available to you to enforce scalable resource tagging in your organization.
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>[!VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/embed/nHQYcYGKuyw]
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### Use cost analysis
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Cost analysis allows you to analyze your organizational costs in-depth by slicing and dicing your costs using standard resource properties. Consider the following common questions as a guide for your analysis. Answering these questions on a regular basis will help you stay more informed and enable more cost-conscious decisions.

articles/cost-management-billing/costs/quick-acm-cost-analysis.md

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description: This quickstart helps you use cost analysis to explore and analyze your Azure organizational costs.
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## Prerequisites
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Cost analysis supports different kinds of Azure account types. To view the full list of supported account types, see [Understand Cost Management data](understand-cost-mgt-data.md). To view cost data, you need at least read access for your Azure account.
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For information about assigning access to Azure Cost Management data, see [Assign access to data](../../cost-management/assign-access-acm-data.md).
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If you have a new subscription, you cant immediately use Cost Management features. It might take up to 48 hours before you can use all Cost Management features.
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If you have a new subscription, you can't immediately use Cost Management features. It might take up to 48 hours before you can use all Cost Management features.
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## Sign in to Azure
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The scope you select is used throughout Cost Management to provide data consolidation and control access to cost information. When you use scopes, you don't multi-select them. Instead, you select a larger scope, which others roll up to, and then filter down to the nested scopes you need. This approach is important to understand because some people may not have access to a single parent scope, which covers multiple nested scopes.
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Watch the video [How to use Cost Management in the Azure portal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfxysF-kTFA) to learn more about how to use Cost Analysis.
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>[!VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/embed/mfxysF-kTFA]
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The initial cost analysis view includes the following areas.
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**Accumulated cost view**: Represents the predefined cost analysis view configuration. Each view includes date range, granularity, group by, and filter settings. The default view shows accumulated costs for the current billing period, but you can change to other built-in views. For more information, see [Customize cost views](#customize-cost-views).
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The model uses a maximum of six months of training data to project costs for a year. At a minimum, it needs seven days of training data to change its prediction. The prediction is based on dramatic changes, such as spikes and dips, in cost and usage patterns. Forecast doesn't generate individual projections for each item in **Group by** properties. It only provides a forecast for total accumulated costs. If you use multiple currencies, the model provides forecast for costs only in USD.
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Save and share customized views with others by pinning cost analysis to the Azure portal dashboard or by copying a link to cost analysis.
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Watch the video [Sharing and saving views in Azure Cost Management](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQkXXj-SmvQ) to learn more about how to use the portal to share cost knowledge around your organization.
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To pin cost analysis, select the pin icon in the upper-right corner. Pinning cost analysis will save only the main chart or table view. Share the dashboard to give others access to the tile. Note that this shares only the dashboard configuration and doesn't grant others access to the underlying data. If you don't have access to costs but do have access to a shared dashboard, you'll see an "access denied" message.
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To share a link to cost analysis, select **Share** at the top of the blade. A custom URL will show, which opens this specific view for this specific scope. If you don't have cost access and get this URL, you'll see an "access denied" message.
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There are times when you need to download the data for further analysis, merge it with your own data, or integrate it into your own systems. Cost Management offers a few different options. As a starting point, if you need an ad hoc high-level summary, like what you get within cost analysis, build the view you need. Then download it by selecting **Export** and selecting **Download data to CSV** or **Download data to Excel**. The Excel download provides additional context on the view you used to generate the download, like scope, query configuration, total, and date generated.

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

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description: This tutorial helps plan and account for the costs of Azure services that you consume.
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Watch the [Apply budgets to subscriptions using the Azure portal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrkHiUx19Po) video to see how you can create budgets in Azure to monitor spending.
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Azure Cost Management works with Azure Advisor to provide cost optimization recommendations. Azure Advisor helps you optimize and improve efficiency by identifying idle and underutilized resources. This tutorial walks you through an example where you identify underutilized Azure resources and then you take action to reduce costs.
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