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description: This article explains how you can get results for common cost analysis tasks in Azure Cost Management.
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Azure Cost Management users often want answers to questions that many others ask. This article walks you through getting results for common cost analysis tasks in Cost Management.
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## View forecasted costs
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Forecasted costs are shown in cost analysis areas for area and stacked column views. The forecast is based on your historical resource use. Changes to your resource use affect forecasted costs.
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In the Azure portal, navigate to cost analysis for your scope. For example: **Cost Management + Billing** > **Cost Management** > **Cost analysis**.
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In the default view, the top chart has the Actual/Amortized cost and forecasted cost sections. The solid color of the chart shows your Actual/Amortized cost. The shaded color shows the forecast cost.
The default view doesn't show forecasted costs group by a service, so you have to add a group by selection.
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In the Azure portal, navigate to cost analysis for your scope. For example: **Cost Management + Billing** > **Cost Management** > **Cost analysis**.
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Select **Group by** > **Service name**.
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The view shows your costs grouped for each service. The forecasted cost isn't calculated for each service. It's projected for the **Total** of all your services.
You can view forecasted costs narrowed to a single service. For example, you might want to see forecasted costs for just virtual machines.
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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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1. Select **Add filter** and then select **Service name**.
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1. In the **choose** list, select a service. For example select, **virtual machines**.
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Review the actual cost for selection and the forecasted cost.
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You can add more customizations to the view.
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1. Add a second filter for **Meter** and select a value to filter for an individual type of meter under your selected service name.
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1. Group by **Resource** to see the specific resources that are accruing cost. The forecasted cost isn't calculated for each service. It's projected for the **Total** of all your resources.
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[](./media/cost-analysis-common-uses/forecast-by-service.png#lightbox)
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## View your Azure and AWS costs together
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To view Azure and AWS costs together, you use management group scopes in Azure.
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1. Create a management group or select an existing one.
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1. Assign the existing Azure subscriptions that you need to the management group.
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1. Assign the *same* management group to the linked account of the connector.
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1. Go to cost analysis and select **Accumulated costs**.
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1. Select **Group by** - **Provider**.
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## View cost breakdown by Azure service
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Viewing costs by an Azure service can help you to better understand the parts of your infrastructure that cost the most. For example, VM compute costs might be small. Yet you might accrue significant networking costs because of the amount of information emitting from the VMs. Understanding the primary cost drivers of your Azure services is essential so that you can adjust service usage, as needed.
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[](./media/cost-analysis-common-uses/virtual-machines.png#lightbox)
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Your services are built with Azure resources. Reviewing costs based on resources can help you quickly identify your primary cost contributors. If a service has resources that are too expensive, consider making changes to reduce your costs.
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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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author: bandersmsft
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Keep informed about how your organization's costs evolve over time. Use the following techniques to properly understand and manage your spending.
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### Organize and tag your resources
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### Organize resources to maximize cost insights and accountability
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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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A well-planned organizational structure for your Azure billing and resource hierarchies helps to give you a good understanding and control over costs as you create your cloud infrastructure. Watch the video [Setting up entity hierarchies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3TLRaYJ1NY)to gain a better understanding of the organizational tools that are available and how to take advantage of them. To watch other videos, visit the [Cost Management YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/c/AzureCostManagement).
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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. To watch other videos, visit the [Cost Management YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/c/AzureCostManagement).
As you evaluate and create a hierarchy that meets your needs, ask yourself the following questions.
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*Which billing hierarchy is available to me and what are the different scopes that I can use?*
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Identify the billing arrangement for your organization by determining your Azure offer type. The available scopes for each Azure billing arrangement are documented at [Understand and work with scopes](understand-work-scopes.md).
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*If I have multiple teams, how should I organize my subscriptions and resource groups?*
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Creating a subscription or resource group for each team is a common practice. They can help you to differentiate costs and hold teams accountable. However, costs are bound to the subscription or resource group.
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If you already have teams with multiple subscriptions, consider grouping the subscriptions into management groups to analyze the costs together. Management groups, subscriptions, and resource groups are all part of the Azure RBAC hierarchy. Use them collectively for access control in your teams.
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Resources can span across multiple scopes, especially when they're shared by multiple teams or workloads. Consider identifying resources with tags. Tags are discussed further in the next section.
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*Do I have Development and Production environments?*
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Consider creating Dev/Test subscriptions for your development environments to take advantage of reduced pricing. If the workloads span multiple teams or Azure scopes, consider using tags to identify them.
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Tags are a effective way to understand costs that span across multiple teams and Azure scopes. For example, you might have a resource like an email server that many teams use. You can put a shared resource, like the email server, in a subscription that's dedicated to shared resources or put it in an existing subscription. If you put it in an existing subscription, the subscription owner might not want its cost accruing to their team every month. For this example, you can use a tag to identify the resource as being shared.
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Similarly, you might also have web apps or environments, such as Test or Production, that use resources across multiple subscriptions owned by different teams. To better understand the full cost of the workloads, tag the resources that they use. When tags are applied properly, you can apply them as a filter in cost analysis to better understand trends.
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After you plan for resource tagging, you can configure an Azure policy to enforce tagging on resources. Watch the [How to review tag policies with Azure Cost Management](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHQYcYGKuyw) video to understand the tools available that help you enforce scalable resource tagging. To watch other videos, visit the [Cost Management YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/c/AzureCostManagement).
description: This tutorial helps plan and account for the costs of Azure services that you consume.
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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.
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You can group your Azure and AWS costs together by assigning a management group to your connector along with it's consolidated and linked accounts. Assign your Azure subscriptions to the same management group. Then create a budget for the combined costs.
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1. In Cost Management, select **Budgets**.
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1. Continue creating the budget until complete.
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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. We recommend that you 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.
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Budget cost evaluations are based on actual cost. They don't include amortization. For more information about filtering options available to you in budgets, see [Understanding grouping and filtering options](quick-acm-cost-analysis.md#understanding-grouping-and-filtering-options).
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When you create or edit a budget for a subscription or resource group scope, you can configure it to call an action group. The action group can perform various actions when your budget threshold is met. Action Groups are currently only supported for subscription and resource group scopes. For more information about Action Groups, see [Create and manage action groups in the Azure portal](../../azure-monitor/platform/action-groups.md). For more information about using budget-based automation with action groups, see [Manage costs with Azure budgets](../manage/cost-management-budget-scenario.md).
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To create or view a data export or to schedule an export, open the desired scope in the Azure portal and select **Cost analysis** in the menu. For example, navigate to **Subscriptions**, select a subscription from the list, and then select **Cost analysis** in the menu. At the top of the Cost analysis page, select **Export** and then choose an export option. For example, select **Schedule export**.
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To create or view a data export or to schedule an export, open the desired scope in the Azure portal and select **Cost analysis** in the menu. For example, navigate to **Subscriptions**, select a subscription from the list, and then select **Cost analysis** in the menu. At the top of the Cost analysis page, select **Settings** and then **Exports** and then choose an export option.
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If you have a Pay-As-You-Go, MSDN, or Visual Studio subscription, your invoice billing period might not align to the calendar month. For those types of subscriptions and resource groups, you can create an export that's aligned to your invoice period or to calendar months. To create an export aligned to your invoice month, navigate to **Custom**, then select **Billing-period-to-date**. To create an export aligned to the calendar month, select **Month-to-date**.
If you have an Enterprise Agreement, then you can use a management group to aggregate subscription cost information in a single container. Then you can export cost management data for the management group.
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