Azure Cost Management

Azure Cost Management and optimization skills. Provides recommendations, budget management, exports, alerts, and commitment tracking capabilities.

Domain Knowledge

Domain	Purpose	Key Operations
azure-advisor	Cost recommendations	Query, suppress, manage recommendations
azure-savings-plans	Savings plan analysis	Benefit recommendations, coverage, ROI
azure-budgets	Budget management	Create budgets, notifications, action groups
azure-cost-exports	Scheduled exports	FOCUS exports, backfill, troubleshooting
azure-anomaly-alerts	Cost anomaly detection	Bulk alert deployment across subscriptions
azure-reservations	Reserved instance analysis	Reservation recommendations, utilization, coverage, exchange/return
azure-commitment-discount-decision	Commitment discount framework	Reservations vs savings plans decision criteria, hybrid strategy
azure-credits	Credit tracking	Azure Prepayment balance, expiration risk
azure-macc	MACC commitment tracking	Balance, decrements, milestone tracking

Cost Optimization

Azure Advisor Recommendations

az advisor recommendation list --category Cost --output table

Suppression: Up to 90-day TTL, bulk suppression via management groups.

For detailed documentation: references/azure-advisor.md

Savings plans and reservations

Benefit Recommendations API for:

• Savings plan purchase recommendations (up to 65% savings)
• Reservation recommendations (up to 72% savings)
• Coverage analysis and utilization monitoring
• Decision framework: when to use which commitment type

For detailed documentation:

• references/azure-savings-plans.md — savings plan analysis and script
• references/azure-reservations.md — reserved instance analysis
• references/azure-commitment-discount-decision.md — decision framework

Budget & Alerts

Budgets

• Up to 5 notifications per budget
• Action Groups at Subscription/Resource Group scope only
• Threshold types: Actual, Forecasted

az consumption budget list --output table

For detailed documentation: references/azure-budgets.md

Anomaly Alerts

Enterprise-scale deployment with pagination for large environments.

For detailed documentation: references/azure-anomaly-alerts.md

Cost Exports

FOCUS format exports to storage accounts with backfill support.

For detailed documentation: references/azure-cost-exports.md

Commitment Tracking

Azure Credits (Prepayment)

Track EA/MCA credit balances, expiration dates, consumption history.

For detailed documentation: references/azure-credits.md

MACC (Azure Consumption Commitment)

Track MACC balance, decrements, milestone progress, eligible spend.

For detailed documentation: references/azure-macc.md

Reference documentation

• Optimization: references/azure-advisor.md, references/azure-savings-plans.md, references/azure-reservations.md
• Decision framework: references/azure-commitment-discount-decision.md
• Budgets and alerts: references/azure-budgets.md, references/azure-anomaly-alerts.md, references/azure-cost-exports.md
• Commitments: references/azure-credits.md, references/azure-macc.md Load the appropriate reference file when detailed workflows, API examples, or troubleshooting are needed.