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## View your Spot VM charges
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Spot VMs can provide large cost savings for workloads that can handle interruptions. Workloads are run on unused Azure capacity. Since they can be evicted at any time, Spot VMs get a significant discount. Use the following steps to view your Spot VM charges.
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1. In the Azure portal, navigate to cost analysis for your scope. For example, **Cost Management + Billing** > **Cost Management** > **Cost analysis**.
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2. Add a filter for **Pricing Model: Spot**.
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The Pricing Model dimension is also used to view on demand and reservation charges.
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## View your reservation charges
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Reserved instances provide a way for you to save money with Azure. With reservations, you spend money up front for a given number of resources over time. Cost analysis shows the charges as they appear on your bill. The charges are shown as actual costs or amortized over the course of your reservation period.
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**Amortized cost** - Shows a reservation purchase split as an amortized cost over the duration of the reservation term. Using the same example above, cost analysis shows a $100 cost for each month throughout the year, if you purchased a one-year reservation for $1200 in January. If you group costs by VM in this example, you'd see cost attributed to each VM that received the reservation benefit.
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## View your Spot VM charges
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Spot VMs can provide large cost savings for workloads that can handle interruptions. Workloads are run on unused Azure capacity. Since they can be evicted at any time, Spot VMs get a significant discount. Use the following steps to view your Spot VM charges.
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1. In the Azure portal, navigate to cost analysis for your scope. For example, **Cost Management + Billing** > **Cost Management** > **Cost analysis**.
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The Pricing Model dimension is also used to view on demand and reservation charges.
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## View your reservation utilization
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After you buy a reservation, it's important to track its utilization so that you get what you paid for. For example, if you bought 10 VMs for a year and only use five of them, then essentially half of the purchase is wasted. There are two different ways to assess your utilization:
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